Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The fine dust or powdered rock from an ore stamp-mill or rock-crusher.
  • The lighter earth carried away in the sluices of a hydraulic mining operation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mining), Local, U. S. The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slicken.
  • noun US, dialect The pulverised matter from a quartz mill.
  • noun US, dialect, mining The lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

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Compare slick (noun).

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