Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rectangular vessel which receives the flow from a pipe or stream, from which through a flume or sluice the water is led to the desired point of discharge.
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- noun Alternative form of
sluice box .
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Examples
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Men cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box.
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Again his hand was reached down to the rippling water at the head of the sluice-box.
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He sat down at the head of the sluice-box and gave directions how they should turn off the most of the water, wash down the "toilings" very low, lift up the "riffle," brush down the "apron," and finally set the pan in the lower end of the "sluice-toil" and pour in the quicksilver to gather up and hold the gold.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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And how pleasant it was here under the broad boughs of the oak, with the water rippling through the sluice on the soft, loose soil which they shoveled into the long sluice-box.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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He meant to have his first smoke at the sluice-box, as a miner should.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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Here he set a sluice-box and put his three little miners at work with pick, pan and shovel.
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He sat down at the head of the sluice-box and gave directions how they should turn off the most of the water, wash down the "toilings" very low, lift up the "riffle," brush down the "apron," and finally set the pan in the lower end of the "sluice-toil" and pour in the quicksilver to gather up and hold the gold.
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He meant to have his first smoke at the sluice-box, as a miner should.
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Stumps, who had left off his work, which consisted mainly of pulling flowers and putting them in the sluice-box to see them float away.
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And how pleasant it was here under the broad boughs of the oak, with the water rippling through the sluice on the soft, loose soil which they shoveled into the long sluice-box.
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