Sluice
noun
A sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
The water flowed freely once the sluice was opened.
Often appears as...
- open the sluice
- close the sluice
verb
Wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
She quickly sluiced down the decks.
Often appears as...
- sluice down the deck
- sluice off dirt
noun
A channel or trough constructed to carry off surplus water.
The farm had a full network of drainage sluices.
Often appears as...
- drainage sluice
- sluice channel
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In gold mining, an inclined trough for washing ore, especially a wooden trough divided into compartments in which the sands are washed by a flow of water.
Gold miners filled the sluice with rocky soil from the river.
Often appears as...
- gold mining sluice
- river sluice
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To process something in a sluice.
The miner sluiced the soil in search of gold.
noun
A sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
The water flowed freely once the sluice was opened.
Often appears as...
- open the sluice
- close the sluice
verb
Wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
She quickly sluiced down the decks.
Often appears as...
- sluice down the deck
- sluice off dirt
noun
A channel or trough constructed to carry off surplus water.
The farm had a full network of drainage sluices.
Often appears as...
- drainage sluice
- sluice channel
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In gold mining, an inclined trough for washing ore, especially a wooden trough divided into compartments in which the sands are washed by a flow of water.
Gold miners filled the sluice with rocky soil from the river.
Often appears as...
- gold mining sluice
- river sluice
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To process something in a sluice.
The miner sluiced the soil in search of gold.
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Flow Control
A sluice in this context often refers to managing water levels, such as in dams, canals, or locks.
The engineers used a sluice to regulate the dam's water levels.
Pro Tip 2/2Water Navigation
Sluices are crucial in lock systems allowing boats to travel between waters at different heights.
The lock keeper opened the sluice to let the canal boat ascend.
Pro Tip 1/2Flow Control
A sluice in this context often refers to managing water levels, such as in dams, canals, or locks.
The engineers used a sluice to regulate the dam's water levels.
Pro Tip 2/2Water Navigation
Sluices are crucial in lock systems allowing boats to travel between waters at different heights.
The lock keeper opened the sluice to let the canal boat ascend.
Pro Tip 1/2Flow Control
A sluice in this context often refers to managing water levels, such as in dams, canals, or locks.
The engineers used a sluice to regulate the dam's water levels.
Pro Tip 2/2Water Navigation
Sluices are crucial in lock systems allowing boats to travel between waters at different heights.
The lock keeper opened the sluice to let the canal boat ascend.
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California Drought...
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Sulphur Surfer PIPE Yukon...
they'll have to shut down and excavate the rocks I'm just gonna take it down a little bit with the hall I don't know I'm sinking now it's gonna be soft it's like dough runoff water from the sluice
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Gold or Bust PIPE Yukon Gold
good to be back this is the last two connections from the pump to the sluice yeah we've converted everything now over the plastic line I'm really happy about
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Not A Bright Idea PIPE...
for Big Al and his crew they need to get the light set up the sluice in the dark we can put it up on here somewhere yeah that's up in the hill or way up on
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Sifting Through the Dirt...
heavier valuable material isolating the gold and trapping it in sections of the sluice dirt should flow off and the hopefully the gold is stay behind
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Halfway Clean PIPE Yukon...
sluicing over the past week has made a lot of money yet you know where is the big pay streak I guess in the end you
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No no dodo skeleton for me. But the damage had been done. I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my "Creative Projects" folder -- it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,
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Water Woes PIPE Yukon Gold
ounces of gold from the freezing soil it has to be sluiced this year he digs up a narrow strip along the creek it's the only place he can everything else is frozen just a race to the finish it's a gamble the creek could break through and wash away all his pay dirt
Video examples
Balancing With Bulldozer...
much direction it has a lot to do with my dad being a big influence on Kyle and teaching him the same traits that I got he put in his time it's good having around this 30 ton workhorse is crucial it carries pay dirt to the sluice plant
Video examples
California Drought...
in the river with the drought get you up High River all righty just looking for the spots instead of doing a bunch of digging to run it sluice box I just get right into the spots where the gold are I just started
Video examples
The Romans flooded the...
Others think the system of chambers and sluice gates used to drain the arena, were also used to fill it. These chambers could’ve been filled with water prior to the event and then opened to submerge the stage
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Sulphur Surfer PIPE Yukon...
they'll have to shut down and excavate the rocks I'm just gonna take it down a little bit with the hall I don't know I'm sinking now it's gonna be soft it's like dough runoff water from the sluice
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Gold or Bust PIPE Yukon Gold
good to be back this is the last two connections from the pump to the sluice yeah we've converted everything now over the plastic line I'm really happy about
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Not A Bright Idea PIPE...
for Big Al and his crew they need to get the light set up the sluice in the dark we can put it up on here somewhere yeah that's up in the hill or way up on
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Sifting Through the Dirt...
heavier valuable material isolating the gold and trapping it in sections of the sluice dirt should flow off and the hopefully the gold is stay behind
Video examples
Halfway Clean PIPE Yukon...
sluicing over the past week has made a lot of money yet you know where is the big pay streak I guess in the end you
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.
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Andrew Motion
English Poet
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
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Fred Allen
American Comedian
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.
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Andrew Motion
English Poet
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
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Fred Allen
American Comedian
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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