| 单词 | sluice-fork |
| 释义 | > as lemmassluice-fork sluice-fork n. a fork used to break up lumps of gravel in a gold-miner's sluice-box. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold > instruments for breaking up clay or gravel sluice-fork1856 harrow1869 1856 San Francisco Call 16 Dec. 4/2 As he went—took it puss'nal—it commenced raining ‘sluice-forks’. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 92 The large stones..lifted out by hand..while the smaller ones are sometimes taken out with a long handled long pronged sluice-fork. 1909 H. Thompson in A. E. Currie Centennial Treasury of Otago Verse (1949) 59 Slinging stones out with his sluice-fork—what a pleasant little game. < as lemmas |
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