[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gatesluice? gate?at the upper end for regulating the flow.", "the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.", "any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.", "a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain.", "a stream of surplus water.", "an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter:a lumbering sluice.", "Also calledsluice? box?.Mining.a long, sloping trough or the like, with grooves on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice.", "to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice.", "to open a sluice upon.", "to flush or cleanse with a rush of water:to sluice the decks of a boat.", "Mining.to wash in a sluice.", "to send (logs) down a sluiceway ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice."]}]