sluice-boxn.

Etymology: sluice n. 5.

One of the long troughs of which a gold-washing sluice is composed; a riffle-box.

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1857 Hutching's Mag. July 7/1 A continuous line of these troughs or ‘sluice boxes’, the smaller and lower end of each, inserted for three or four inches into the larger end of the next one below, form the ‘sluice’.

1864 J. C. Richmond Let. 12 May in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 110 You will not be quite out of the rattle of the shovel, long tom and sluice box, for we are very golden just now.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 17 The long tunnel becomes a sluice-way, through the whole length of which sluice-boxes are laid at once.

1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 114 A long square trough, termed a ‘sluice-box’, about a foot in width and 20 feet long.

1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 642 Below this tank, and running down the bed of the ravine, are the sluice boxes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	sluice-box
释义	sluice-boxn. Etymology: sluice n. 5. One of the long troughs of which a gold-washing sluice is composed; a riffle-box. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold > part of sluice riffle1848 ripple1853 sluice-box1857 1857 Hutching's Mag. July 7/1 A continuous line of these troughs or ‘sluice boxes’, the smaller and lower end of each, inserted for three or four inches into the larger end of the next one below, form the ‘sluice’. 1864 J. C. Richmond Let. 12 May in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 110 You will not be quite out of the rattle of the shovel, long tom and sluice box, for we are very golden just now. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 17 The long tunnel becomes a sluice-way, through the whole length of which sluice-boxes are laid at once. 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 114 A long square trough, termed a ‘sluice-box’, about a foot in width and 20 feet long. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 642 Below this tank, and running down the bed of the ravine, are the sluice boxes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1857
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