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Meanings of sluiceway in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "sluice"
Examples for "sluice"
1
I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box.
2
A sluice is basically a long rectangular box open at both ends.
3
A little before sundown he ordered the sluice-gates of the dam opened.
4
Already men with pike-poles were guiding the sullen timbers toward the sluice-way.
5
He cleaned up the sluice-boxes late last fall after the first freeze.
1
But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
2
I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
3
Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock.
4
The next day I told Miss Penstock.
5
Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
Usage of sluiceway in inglés
1
They had entered the sluiceway at a place where there was scarcely any current.
2
As the boys passed under the sluiceway trestle Jack exclaimed:
3
The men hastily withdrew, first taking the precaution to remove the plank that covered the sluiceway.
4
It could never pass sideways between the two masses of rock and through the center sluiceway.
5
I funneled it through a small corridor I fought to maintain between sisters- ahumansluiceway of hurt.
6
He could not escape, for the removal of the plank from the sluiceway made the place literally an island.
7
So as the women followed an ancient sluiceway west, all sorts of lights and signs began to blink on.
8
Beyond the lake, on the other side, the sluiceway continued on, but there was a gap of several hundred feet.
9
From the entrance to the exit of the sluiceway, that corridor of stone would measure no more than twelve feet.
10
The river industriously shoved the Explorer deeper into the sluiceway, although the truck was now entirely crosswise to the flow.
11
The next instant the two boys were being whirled down the sluiceway on top of the water at a swift pace.
12
Thereupon Orde's crew built a new sluiceway and gate far enough down to assure a good head in the pond above.
13
Almost with the speed of an arrow from the bow the two boys flew forward on the swiftly-moving water in the sluiceway.
14
We get our water from a little lake on the top of the mountain, and only the overflow goes down the sluiceway.
15
The sluiceway was about four feet wide and three feet deep, and there was a great quantity of water flowing through it.
16
With cautious strokes they paddled on until a sudden glimpse of the sluiceway leading under the mill caused them to pull up short.
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