unsluice

English

Etymology

un- +‎ sluice

Verb

unsluice (third-person singular simple present unsluices, present participle unsluicing, simple past and past participle unsluiced)

1. (transitive) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.
   • 1717, John Dryden, Meleager and Atalanta:

     All ages, all degrees unsluice their eyes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unsluice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)