sluiceway
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Origin of sluiceway
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When it is time to harvest Superior Fresh’s salmon, workers in waterproof clothing use a long-handled net to carefully lift the fish onto a portable sluiceway.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 9, 2023
A bowl works as a natural sluiceway to take us back to the lower T-bar.
From Time Magazine Archive
In minutes I hear the water gushing down the sluiceway, bubbling and chortling along until it spills out the end and strikes the paddles of the wheel just forward of its highest point.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
I’ll be locked into this dam by you, with sluiceway refused to me—that’s what it will come to—you offering me a cut price for the logs I can’t get down to the Adonia sawmills.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
Further investigation showed Ned that the saw mill abutted on the corner of the dam, and that a narrow sluiceway conducted the water to the machinery.
From Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters by William Murray Graydon
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