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sluicebox

sluicebox is the alternative form of sluice box.

Meaning of sluice box

Noun

sluice box (plural sluice boxes)

  1. A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.

Forms of sluicebox

pluralsluiceboxes

Questions about sluicebox

What is sluicebox the alternative form of?
Sluicebox is the alternative form of sluice box.

Words near sluicebox in the dictionary

  1. sluice-gate
  2. sluice-gate price
  3. sluice-gate prices
  4. sluice-gates
  5. sluiceable
  6. sluicebox
  7. sluiceboxes
  8. sluiced
  9. sluiced one's bolt
  10. sluiced out
  11. sluicegate

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