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
A combination of damaged sluice gates and high water might tear away a few gates, but would not be expected to rip apart so much of the dam, the professor said.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
As the last sluice of lemonade slipped out of the cooler, a slick of mud poured out.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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