sluice-box † Placer Mining, Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
n.
a long box or trough containing riffles (def. 2) by means of which gold is separated from gravel.
See also: long tom riffle ((n.)) (def. 2) rock-bottom sluice-box sluice ((n.)) sluicing-box
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