dump-box

Placer Mining, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a box used in washing the dump.

See: dump ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1868

Wash! Wash! Wash!/And rattle the rocks around,/Is the song the Dump-box sings. . . .

1869

. . . the dance now most appreciated is that which is induced by the monotonous music of the water as it runs over a glittering dump-box.