sluice-wayn.
A channel or waterway fed or controlled by means of a sluice or sluices. Also in Lumbering (see quot. 1851).
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > controlled by locks or sluices
sluice-way1779
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs
flume1784
log-rollinga1792
drive1835
river-driving1843
river drive1845
sluice-way1851
sacking1860
timber drivea1861
skidding1877
log-running1878
skid road1880
rigging1897
swamping1902
log-drivea1904
high lead1905
high-lining1919
1779 W. McKendry Jrnl. 8 Aug. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) II. 461 The sluce way was broke up and the water filld. the river immediately.
1851 Harper's Mag. Sept. 517 For taking logs down mountain sides..we construct what are called dry sluice~ways.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 102 A mill is built, a banking-house is opened, and men come in, as water in a sluice-way.
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 Lumberman's Gaz. 16 July 5 The bark is thrust into sluice-ways to the chains and carried by them outside.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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