sluice ((v.)) †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v. — Placer Mining

wash gold in a sluice-box.

Quotations

1937

"Buckskin" Miller still sluiced on his ground. . . .

2v. — Lumbering

of logs, drive through a sluice in a river.

1949

Tobique's white with foam./Once again the mighty drives/Are sluicing grandly home.

1957

Sawlogs are also sorted from the wood being sluiced from the Kenogamisis into Long Lake.