sluice in the PONS Dictionary

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The total cost of the channel and outfall sluice was 33,000.
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The weir and sluice were rebuilt in 1963 at a cost of 12,714.
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The town is built at the top of a waterfall, and water was diverted from the stream to provide water for mine sluicing and processing.
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A three-door sluice controls flow out of the canal.
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Several years ago the government built sluice gates for the silt fertilization method, though many people disagreed with the plan.
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The villages documented changes in their towns as a result of the opening of the sluice gates.
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The gravel was washed in a revolving trommel from which the screened material went directly to the sluices and the oversize to a belt stacker.
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It is provided with three sluice gates for release of water for irrigation of agricultural land in the down streamarea.
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The turbine was controlled by a sluice which was also installed at the time.
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The gravel was carried down the entire length of the sluice and then discharged, but the heavier flakes of gold settled and became trapped.
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