单词 | slickens |
释义 | slickensn. U.S. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > produced in boring, mining, or dredging redd1527 rede1554 fay1747 ridding1827 spoil1838 halvans1849 bore-meal1870 sludge1871 slickens1882 1882 Cent. Mag. 25 337 It is the lighter soils of the hydraulic mines and the pulverized matter from the quartz-mills of the mining region which constitute ‘slickens’. 1894 N.Y. Tribune 1 Feb. 1/3 All of this [500 acres] will be covered with ‘slickens’, washings from the mines in the mountains, and thus be rendered valueless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1882 |
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