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sluiceway

NOUN
  1. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

How To Use sluiceway In A Sentence

  • The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
  • The pavement of the trough is generally laid of blocks of wood 6 inches in thickness, cut across the grain, and placed on their ends, to the width of the sluiceway. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
  • I constructed near the seashore a little sluiceway, to draw off the water whenever I desired. Champlain's Dream
  • No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
  • The Jordan Valley is a perfect avian sluiceway; for millennia a feathery tide has ridden it, indifferent to the human dramas playing out below.
  • Corney boasted, immediately swinging around, and heading toward the spot where the moss-covered wheel of the deserted mill could be seen, with little streams of water trickling over it from the broken sluiceway above. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
  • We will have an intersection here the size of a village, twin bridges spanning the banks of the mighty ring road, a centrifuge pulsing cars through sluiceways.
  • The river had narrowed, and the tons of water squeezing into this natural funnel spout had essentially transformed a lazy stream into a raging sluiceway. SERPENT
  • These rapids range from tame sluiceways to a shoulder-high waterfall.
  • The object of this laborious operation is obvious, as the long tunnel becomes a sluiceway, and through the whole length of which sluice boxes are laid, for the double motive of carrying off the material and saving the gold, and for this purpose a trough of strong planks is placed in the tunnel, 2½ feet wide, and with sides high enough to contain the stream. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
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