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How to pronounce “sluice”

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Pronunciation guide for sluice

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of sluice with real speech in context.
Available examples: 3 YouTube examples
Real speech example: My Big Idea (Ep. 1): A Joyful Way to Get Outsideand gets get stuck where somebody's closed the little sluice gate.
Definition summary: An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

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My Big Idea (Ep. 1): A Joyful Way to Get Outside

and gets get stuck where somebody's closed the little sluice gate.

[Noun]
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
[Verb]
(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
(intransitive) To flow, pour.
(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.