sluicy
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Etymology edit
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sluicy (comparative more sluicy, superlative most sluicy)
- Falling copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.
References edit
- “sluicy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.