sluice water. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
sluice logs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
sluice the earth. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. From Wordnik.com. [THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER] Reference
'Tom' begat the sluice, which is of two kinds, natural and artificial. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
"Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
Searching for a definition for the word "sluice," I naturally turned to my trusty friend. From Wordnik.com. [Traffick] Reference
The sluice was a tunnel over on Bay1st Street. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
The sluice was a tunnel over on Bay 1st Street. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
A sluice by which water passes from one drain to another. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Without really knowing why, she asked Molly about the sluice. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
A sluice gate beside the road at Bleadon marks its tidal limit. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Somerset] Reference
At first he was inclined thoroughly to sluice himself inwardly. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Better think a bit before opening the sluice-ways for that flood. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
"I just open the sluice gates," she once wrote, "and out it all comes.". From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference
Katleean for making sluice-boxes and furniture was made into a raft to be towed. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
"Come," said I to Jason, "let us go and have a sluice: there is water in plenty.". From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
Kadrug was still in possession of the sluice gates, but what was that to Conabar?. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
They had a small stamp-mill, run by mule power; and a large number of sluice-boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Again his hand was reached down to the rippling water at the head of the sluice-box. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
It was not far from the head of the sluice, and, therefore, a most critical position. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
For they do not open the sluice-gates wide enough to let the waters reach flood-tide. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
In 1810 every sluice in the falls at Richmond was plied day and night by float seines. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
The Queen of the Pool leaped two feet out of water and then made straight for the sluice. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
This sweeps away the sand but allows the heavier gold to sink to the bottom of the sluice. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The liberated logs now come sailing along, their speed quickening as they near the sluice. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Here he set a sluice-box and put his three little miners at work with pick, pan and shovel. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
Turning on the TV is tantamount to opening a sluice gate and allowing the stuff into your home. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
He would be crushed among the logs in the sluice, or dashed among the rocks in the seething water. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
There were some old sluice-boxes and deserted cabins, which were very interesting to the average sightseer. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
The men shovelled all the gravel from the moss down to bedrock into the sluice box as it was all pay gravel. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
I like myself to fish with a single fly, and I anchored my boat about 30 ft. from the head of the outfall sluice. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Sometimes the fish made for the boat, sometimes for the sluice, and the rod was never still, but she had to give in. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
So when everyone at school started whispering that Billy had shot the sluice, Laura was annoyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
When she got there, a group of boys were throwing stones and looking over the edge of the sluice. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
My father managed the sluice, which was used for excluding, retaining, and regulating the flow of water into this drain. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
They all looked over the edge of the street to where the sluice was drawing the high tide into its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
The sluice-boxes were soon cleaned and the sand and gravel reduced until we could almost see the bottom of the pan -- but no gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
Some industries and towns sluice them raw into the dark, sad water, and others give only perfunctory primary treatment; the city of. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
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