sluicing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of sluice

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
2. (countable, uncountable)A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.