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n. (sluice box English)
Usage examples of "sluice boxes".
Ancient gold miners had washed gold-bearing gravel in wooden sluice boxes.
An axe, a big jack-knife, a hammer and some nails left over from building their sluice boxes, these were the tools.
There was a spidery something against the sky, a few low piles of waste dirt, a set of sluice boxes built one on top of the other like a miniature cooling tower, an endless belt going towards it from a cut.
Many of the miners used more sophisticated methods of prospecting long toms, or cradles, or sluice boxes but they required at least a half-dozen men to share the labor.
The creek banks were bare, scarred with trenches, littered with broken sluice boxes and discarded tools.
The pool itself, muddy and discolored from the sluice boxes, effectually hid what it contained, and it contained John Thornton.
The gold claims, he could not even begin to imagine how much it might cost to transport stamp mills and sluice boxes from the railhead.