sluicing's Usage Examples:

In more modern times there has been the same excavation of shallow pits, and sluicing, sifting and sorting, by hand labour, the only machinery used being chain pumps made of earthen bowls to remove the water from the deeper pits.

A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in river deposits.

battery, but the starboard anchor was hung up with a strong tide sluicing down the mole, and the ship was carried some 700 yd.

sluicea significant period the home did not have a washing machine with sluicing facility.

deep if the leached ore is to be removed by sluicing, 5 ft.

For a significant period the home did not have a washing machine with sluicing facility.

Synonyms:

douse, souse, soak, sop, drench, flush, dowse,

Antonyms:

adduct, defend, motionlessness, ignite, cool,