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

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

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

The magnitude of the floods, coupled with high tides, overwhelm the sluice gates and colonial-era seawall, but Arjune Lilmohan, 32, said he is not giving up the fight.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

Then we slosh buckets of water across the floorboards, using push brooms to sluice the resulting muck from the car.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen