What does sluicing mean?
noun
The act of removing or clearing something, especially water, from a place. In linguistics, a construction in which a clause is removed from a sentence, often to indicate that the speaker does not know or care about the answer to a question.
Example
"The sluicing of the river was a major engineering feat."
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