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
Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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