| 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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