écluse

From Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclūsa [aqua], from the classical Latin verb exclūdō, exclūdere.

• IPA^(key): /e.klyz/

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• Homophones: éclusent, écluses

écluse f (plural écluses)

1. sluice, lock (of canal)

écluse

1. inflection of écluser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “écluse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• culées, écules, éculés