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wash up Placer Mining

• clean out the riffles, sluice-boxes, blankets, etc. in which gold has been caught in the process of washing the gravel.

  See also: wash-up  wash ((v.))  

  • 1868  (1962)  "Now say, what have you 'wash'd up'?" "Small wages. . . ."
  • 1896  In 1875 the Van Winkle Company, on Lightning Creek, washed up fifteen hundred ounces of gold, as the result of six days' work.