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
At the foot of a series of rapids which were like a steeply descending stair, they found themselves in a sluiceway where the enlarged river ran like a torrent in flood.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
Park & Van Buren, who are building a new draining system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker
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