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

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

I look for rusty machinery, shafts, and bolts that I might use, find none, and turn to go when an out-ofcharacter structure on the sluice wall attracts my attention.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George