"Sluice down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who had not been on duty keeping the middle watch, used to turn out in their oldest pyjamas, accompanied by most of the midshipmen, when we were at this task and have a regular sluice down on the forecastle; some of them catching hold of the hose and playing it on each other in turn, skylarking and ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... we have had a sluice down with cold water from the brass basins, eaten a most unsatisfying and unsubstantial breakfast, much like the dinner the night before, minus the fish, and are out to visit the village schools, at the suggestion of ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton |
