- A
sluice (/slus/ SLOOS) is a
water channel containing a
sluice gate, a type of lock to
manage the
water flow and
water level. It can also be an open channel...
- What? (=What did they put in the mailbox)? The
examples of
sluicing above have the
sluiced material following its antecedent. This
material can also precede...
-
Siphon sluices (French: épanchoir à siphon) are one of the many
water management devices used on the
Canal du Midi to
regulate the
level of the water...
- A gate valve, also
known as a
sluice valve, is a
valve that
opens by
lifting a
barrier (gate) out of the path of the fluid. Gate
valves require very little...
-
material from the deposit, a
method known as
hydraulic mining,
hydraulic sluicing or hydraulicking. The word
placer derives from the
Spanish placer, meaning...
-
Seaton Sluice is a
village in Northumberland. It lies on the
coast at the
mouth of the
Seaton Burn (a
small river),
midway between Whitley Bay and Blyth...
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suitable material are
accessible at an
elevation such that the
earth can be
sluiced to the fill
after being washed from the bank by high-pressure nozzles....
- The
River Heathwall, more
often known as the
Heathwall Sewer,
Heathwall Ditch or
Heathwall Mill Pond was a set of
field drainage ditches and a
large mill...
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considered the
richest section. The cr**** has been drifted, hydraulicked,
sluiced and hand mined. N.L.
Barlee (1980), The
Guide to Gold Panning, Revised...
- the
heartbeat after Anne Boleyn's death, as the
young queen's
blood is
sluiced from the
scaffold and
Thomas Cromwell picks his way
across the wreckage...
