sluice
noun
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate sluice gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
had been sluicing
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past perfect progressiveof sluice.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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They were here at the foot of a glacier stream, from the bed of which they had been sluicing gold.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
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