sluice

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People on social media brandish gold-flecked pans and nuggets while showing off their equipment, ranging from old-fashioned picks to gold-separating sluice boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Yet after back-to-back atmospheric rivers walloped California in less than a week, it wouldn’t take much for water, mud and boulders to sluice down fragile hillsides, experts warned.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

As the tide ebbs the water is released through a sluice, which pushes a water wheel, which turns the grinding stones.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023

Since November, the gantry cranes that open and close the sluice gates have barely moved, though it was not clear if they had not been working.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Bando walks to the pond and opens the sluice gate.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George