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Definition of Sluiced
1. sluice [v] - See also: sluice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluiced
Literary usage of Sluiced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... clad only in white trousers, had just sluiced over his shoulders; and a fourth
private was muttering uneasily as he dozed open-mouthed in the glare of ..."
2. The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the by Richard Robert Madden (1867)
"... in 1690, were the ancestors of the Magee's who '•''sluiced their veins " by
the halter on the gallows of Derry, in the Spring of the year 1788. ..."
3. The Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States by Thomas Egleston (1887)
"If the tailings are sluiced ... ... 102 cub. ft. 2nd. „ „ not sluiced 90 , ...
62 ,, 2nd. „ ,, not sluiced 50 „ 2nd. „ ,, not sluiced .., 10 „ Haw ..."
4. Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-power, and Domestic Water-supply: With an by James Dix Schuyler (1908)
"Lake Frances Dam, showing Main Flume and Laterals for Distributing sluiced
Materials 123 93. Sections of Waialua Dam, Hawaii 129 94. ..."
5. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"For some distance up the lead from the river there was comparatively little wash
above the drainage-level, the present river having cut out and sluiced away ..."
6. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1907)
"Outside of the 2^:1 slope on the down-stream side the dam was constructed of
ordinary earth and more or less rock that were sluiced in by gravity during the ..."
7. Tin Deposits of the World, with a Chapter on Tin Smelting by Sydney Fawns (1907)
"The quantity of water in sluice-heads, multiplied by a fall m inches in a 12 feet
box, gives the number of cubic yards sluiced per hour. ..."
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