sluss

== Swedish == === Noun === sluss c (nautical) a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway) (figuratively) a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock (figuratively) a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened) (in the definite "slussen", normally capitalized) Slussen (area in central Stockholm) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== luftsluss (“airlock”) slussa === References === “sluss”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “sluss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “sluss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)