Usually means: Device for separating gold, minerals.
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  1. sluice box: Merriam-Webster
  2. sluice-box: Wordnik
  3. sluice-box, sluice box: Wiktionary
  4. sluice box: Dictionary.com
  5. Sluice box: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sluice box)

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

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sluice-box, sluicebox, sluice, riffle, clough, trunk, slumgullion, drudger, launder, flosh, more...



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