"Sluice" is a word in ENGLISH
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for
washing auriferous earth.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or
gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a
water gate or flood gate.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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