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单词 slickens
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slickensn.

/ˈslɪkɪns/
Etymology: ? < slick n.2
U.S.
(See quots.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > produced in boring, mining, or dredging
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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.
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