The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SLUICING which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1976.
Flowing through a floodgate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLUICING | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Flowing through a floodgate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sluice
- sluicing
- arno
- fricative
- relay
- thames
- transfluent
- bloodstream
- gasometer
- klamath
- cam
- conductance
Crossword Answer definitions
SLUICING verb- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (more generally) To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
- A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
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