sluiceway
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Origin of sluiceway
Example Sentences
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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
The sluiceway was about four feet wide and three feet deep, and there was a great quantity of water flowing through it.
From Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Young, Clarence
He commenced by running through the sluiceway and over the dam, as usual, standing up in his tossing canoe, and was soon out of sight behind a point in a wild gorge.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
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