sluicing

• This sluicing, knocking, urging night, heaving like a woman with unspeakable desire, but no woman, no thighs or breast, no body. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• Let it be as the snake disposes Here in this simmering marsh KLOSTER SCHAEFTLARN GLOIRE DE DIJON WHEN she rises in the morning I linger to watch her; She spreads the bath-cloth underneath the window And the sunbeams catch her Glistening white on the shoulders, While down her sides the mellow Golden shadow glows as She stoops to the sponge, and her swung breasts Sway like full-blown yellow Gloire de Dijon roses She drips herself with water, and her shoulders Glisten as silver, they crumple up Like wet and falling roses, and I listen For the sluicing of their rain-dishevelled petals. —  Look! We Have Come Through!
• Ground-sluicing is done in winter, when water is abundant and the ground soft, the pay-dirt being thrown into a channel made for the purpose, and down which the water rushes. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• In the background miners are hand or shovel sluicing, in which the riffle-box of the long-tom is dispensed with 5. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
• The sluicing or "cleaning-up" season is short, and mining operators generally consider that they cannot afford to lose an hour of it. —  Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

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