What is to wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining called?
sluice — To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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