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sluice

[sloos] / slus /


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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

Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

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

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

I scooped more mud from the sluice and swirled it around in my pan.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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