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A skeleton crew of beavers had also survived, although any dams they built across the sluicelike channel tended to wash away.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 7, 2018

A long, racing sluicelike incline of black waters, streaked with swirls of white, appeared before them.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan