sluicery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Archaic; Slang

"When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'"

From sluice + -ery.

sluiceries (plural)

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