bateau
Example Sentences
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He was soon crouched at waterway’s edge shoveling silt into a concave pan, or batea, a ritual passed down for generations.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2022
When I was old enough to use a batea I, too, washed gold in the Tiguí, and in the little streams so numerous in that region.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
For a mechanical batea, making 30 revolutions per min.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)
The length of the larger batea is as much as three feet, the width up to a foot and a palm.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Hombre! it left a string of gold clear around the batea!
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
