sluice, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sluice n.

[SE sluice: (1) a channel; a gap, a hole, a gash; (2) a valve for regulating the flow of water; (3) to pour something through a sluice]

1. the vagina.

a.1704		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 184: That whore, my wife [...] that us’d to open her sluice and let in an inundation of shabroons to gratify her concupiscense.
1725		B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iii: From Your stopping up those Drains and Sluices we had to let out Lewdness [...] Those Ramparts and Ditches within which the Virtue of our Wives and daughters lay so conveniently intrench’d.
1732		Harlot’s Progress 30: The Box serv’d too for other Uses, / To hold Machines for broken Sluices.
1836		‘Toasts’ in New Cockalorum Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) II 30: Miller’s music: opening the sluice and grinding the stones.

2. the penis.

c.1673		Rochester ‘A Ramble in St James’s Park’ in Works (1999) 78: Had she pick’d out to rub her Arse on, / Some stiff-Prick’d Clown, or well-hung Parson, / Each Jobb of whose Spermatick Sluice / Had fill’d her Cunt with wholesome Juice.
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘On Mris. F-----n’ in Poems (1752) 82: Unless his full spermatick Sluice / Was ready to run o’er, / Who’d spill a Drop of wholsom Juice / On such a stinking Whore?

3. (UK Und.) a drink.

1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 17/2: After several ‘sluices,’ he again led out his inammorata to the field of action.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 76: Sluice, a drink.

4. the mouth.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Family Connections 40: Pouring out my feelings — and my spunk — into the girl’s hot sluice.

5. sexual intercourse.

1970

Bill Naughton Alfie Darling I asked her would she like a sluice? She wasn’t quite sure what I meant.

sluice-cunted (adj.) [SE sluice, a channel, a run off + cunt n. (1)]

having a large vagina.

1788		‘Plenipotentiary’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 203: Each sluice-cunted bawd, who’d been shagged [?] abroad, / Till her premises gaped like a grave, sir.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 184: The depucellated virgin […] becomes worthy of the denominations cow-cunted, bushel-cunted, sluice-cunted, double-cunted.

sluice-head (n.)

a drunk.

1905

R. Beach Pardners (1912) 10: I reckon all our booze combined would have made a fair sluice-head.

sluice-house (n.) (also sluicing house)

1. a public house, a tavern; used as a proper name; also attrib.

1829		T. Hood ‘Epping Hunt’ Works (1862) II 307: The seventh, in a Sluice-house box / He took his pipe and pot.
1836		‘Going Out a Nesting’ in New Cockalorum Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) II 28: [We] at the sluice-house made a stay, / There took in gatter for the day.
1848		Era (London) 24 Dec. 14/3: He was ‘half seas over’ when he left the Sluice House.
1907		(con. 1830s) W. Wroth Cremorne and the Later London Gardens 42: The Eel-Pie (or Sluice) House, Highbury. This tavern on the New River, between Highbury and Hornsey Wood House, was well known to Cockney visitors.
1907		D. Stewart Shadows of the Night in Illus. Police News 20 July 12/4: ‘Meet me tomorrow by the Goat and Compasses’ [...] ‘All right, me hearty, I’ll find the sluicing house’.

2. the mouth.

1832

Egan Bk of Sports 203: Sam’s sluice house was again severely damaged.