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- Sluices
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thumb|right|A sluice gate
A sluice ( ) is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage water flow and water level. There are various types of sluice gates, including flap sluice gates and fan gates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sluice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.