The sluicing rain. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a lumbering sluice. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to sluice the decks of a boat. From Dictionary.com.
My initial interpretation was the sluicing was before 1968 but you’re right, it may have been long term sluicing from 1968 to 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander et al 2007 « Climate Audit] Reference
The most dangerous part of the work is "sluicing" the logs. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Every morning early, before the pressure was off, all hands would turn out for a general "sluicing" under the hydrants. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
He saw again the rotten "sluicing," through whose hopeless rifts and holes even their scant daily earnings had become scantier. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
And the scavengers followed after, sluicing the pavements. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Lalji began mopping the decks, sluicing away the remaining blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Odysseus was visibly weary, water sluicing off him onto the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
I saw the driving and sluicing as I have described it, in May, 1880. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
I watch your mother bend to prune, water sluicing silver from the hose. From Wordnik.com. [After Loss, Turning To Poetry For Grief And Healing] Reference
Mary's voice answered from the sink, where she was sluicing her face and arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Decontamination jets hissed, sluicing the ship to remove surface contamination. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
So did the water-carrier, sluicing water on the dry road from his goat-skin bag. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
The hot, greenish rain sluicing over the transparent tube would have poisoned him. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
A Tory Government could begin by sluicing out all the illegals and "asylum seekers". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Shan U registered a feline dislike of the wet, but Diana welcomed its warm sluicing. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
I let the water run over me, sluicing off the grime and sweat of the last couple days. From Wordnik.com. [Six Bad Things]
Axa climbed clumsily out of the bath, water sluicing from her linen shift onto the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
I am swimming faster, stroking or sluicing with the clean, sharp cuts of my breaststroke. From Wordnik.com. [This Time, While We're Awake] Reference
And then, having refreshed himself by giving his head a thorough sluicing with cold water. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
I am swimming faster, stroking or sluicing with the clean, sharp cuts of my breaststroke. From Wordnik.com. [This Time, While We're Awake] Reference
They have visions of mill-ponds, with beautiful little cascades sluicing into them over dams. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870] Reference
Hovering in back of my eyelids was an image of blood sluicing from the rails of a gurney cart. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
A shattering peal of thunder blundered overhead; and down came the rain, slashing and sluicing. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
The sluicing rain carried bits and pieces of the creature away, but it never seemed to lose mass. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Since dawn these artists had been scrubbing their doors, washing windows, and sluicing the gutters. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
He grew up on an Oregon farm, and what he hasn't learned about sluicing in Alaska isn't worth knowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
In the background miners are hand or shovel sluicing, in which the riffle-box of the long-tom is dispensed with. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
I knew they would spill over the falls, the place I love to sit on hot days, with the water sluicing and frothing. From Wordnik.com. [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference
ROBERTS: You saw those pictures of the water sluicing over the floodgates of the Howard Duckett Dam up there in Laurel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2006] Reference
We then visited the Mugusu River where we saw hundreds of miners sluicing the ore and amalgamating it in order to recover the gold. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Because it has become omnipresent and liquid, information is now an undifferentiated commodity, sluicing from a vale of wellsprings. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Schwartz: The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now] Reference
Here sapphires are found in glacial auriferous gravels while sluicing for gold, and until now have been considered only a by-product. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
This is a combined sluicing/magnetic separation process where magnets are placed underneath the sluice bottom near the riffle channels. From Wordnik.com. [14.1 Jig screen, hand-jigging] Reference
As the rains came to facilitate the sluicing, more men were added to the force shovelling in the creeks, and this made our work heavier. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Shrapnel is underfoot, wires hanging from the ceiling of underground caverns, with slick water sluicing off them into black puddles below. From Wordnik.com. [horrfff] Reference
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