Editing Sluice (section)

== Mills ==
A [[mill race]], [[Leat|leet]], [[flume]], [[penstock]] or [[Mill race|lade]] is a sluice channeling water toward a [[water mill]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

=== Logging sluices ===
{{see also|Log driving|Timber rafting}}
In the mountains of the United States, sluices transported logs from steep hillsides to downslope [[sawmill]] ponds or yarding areas. Nineteenth-century [[logging]] was traditionally a winter activity for men who spent summers working on farms. Where there were freezing nights, water might be applied to logging sluices every night so a fresh coating of slippery ice would reduce friction of logs placed in the sluice the following morning.<ref>{{cite book| title=Two Feet Between the Rails (Volume 1 - The Early Years) |author=Jones, Robert C. |publisher=Sundance Books |year=1979 |isbn=0-913582-17-4}}</ref>