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

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

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls