sluice-way

You know, the liquid garbage and urine sluice-way.

The Indignity of Summer: It's Always Dorkiest Before the Fall BikeSnobNYC 2010

Cape St. Antonio, the western extremity of Cuba, a fact which illustrates in a striking manner, the force of the current which at certain times sets north, like a sluice-way, between Cuba and

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

That gigantic natural sluice-way must be yellow with the precious metal washed from the upper waters, where the ancient Incas drew their fabulous wealth.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

He became a farmhand, a tramp pedler, a laborer shoveling gravel into a sluice-way and standing all day knee-deep in water.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

On a bleak moor, a mill is built, a banking-house is opened, and men come in, as water in a sluice-way, and towns and cities rise.

V. English Traits. Ability 1909

Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

Protection from ice is afforded by an outer ice-rack along the river face; a line of submerged arches forming outer wall of fore-bayroom; a fine ice-rack extending the whole length of Power House inside the fore-bayroom and immediately outside the penstock mouthpieces, and by an overflow weir which can be used in combination with floating booms to draw floating materials back into the river again by means of a sluice-way channel.

Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective 1905

Men were at once put to work to open a sluice-way to ease the pressure, but all attempts were in vain.

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904

Little Tim gazed for one moment out into midstream, to where the water, black and gleaming, rushed smoothly and swiftly into the opening of the sluice-way.

The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903

The girl crept along the platform and descended a short flight of steps that led to the mill flume -- a long box-like sluice-way that carried the water in to turn the mill wheels.

The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903