sluicing

adjective

1. pouring from or as if from a sluice

- the sluicing rain

noun

1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.

2. (linguistics) 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".

verb

1. present participle of sluice