sluice down

English Thesaurus

1. pour as if from a sluice (verb.weather)

hypernym	:	pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream,
definition	:	rain heavily (verb.weather)

derivation	:	penstock, sluice, sluiceway,
definition	:	conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate (noun.artifact)

derivation	:	penstock, sluice, sluiceway,
definition	:	conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate (noun.artifact)