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sluice ((v.)) † 

• 1 v. Placer Mining wash gold in a sluice-box.

  See also: sluice-box  

  • 1937  "Buckskin" Miller still sluiced on his ground. . . .

• 2 v. Lumbering of logs, drive through a sluice in a river.

  • 1949  Tobique's white with foam./Once again the mighty drives/Are sluicing grandly home.
  • 1957  Sawlogs are also sorted from the wood being sluiced from the Kenogamisis into Long Lake.