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Lazenby, Henry (February 19, 2015). Tracy Hancock (ed.). "Docu-series gives glimpse into world of placer-mining pioneers". Mining Weekly. Retrieved...

the water supply to surrounding paddy fields in the area. Shutting down the sluice gates of the Mavil Aru on July 21 depriving the water to over 15,000...

19th century, the names of Howden, a firm located near the Grand Sluice, and Tuxford, near the Maud Foster Sluice, were respected among engineers for...

deck behind them, damaging some of the sluice gates in a controlled demolition. The Russians then opened more sluice gates, allowing water to rush out of...

were based at Bullock Creek in the Wombat Ranges, where they made money sluicing gold and distilling whisky, and were supplied with provisions and information...

overhead sluice. The two jump off at the Salem yard and A-No.-1 uses Cigaret as a foil to steal a turkey. A policeman (Simon Oakland) chases them to a hobo...

only got stronger when the governor of the fortress at Saarlouis had the sluices opened. But that night the crossing was successfully concluded. The next...

premiered on 12 April 1999. The series finale aired on 31 December 2011 as a mini series titled The Big Dino Dig, which ended the original series after...

A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary...

storage basin until the water could be let out to river or sea, either by a sluice gate at low tide or using further pumps. This system is still in use today...

which are agricultural in nature: Breaking down the ridges Covering up the ditches Releasing the irrigation sluices Double planting Setting up stakes Skinning...

aboté aboteau abotter abotté abouter "(trade term) to join the ends of something" ( < à + OFr boter < Frk *bautan, bōtan (cf Frk *but "end", ON bútr) < Gmc)...

This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place...

yet another wave of viscera sluicing toward the camera." Similarly, Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post wrote that "after a while it's easy to become...

Oil Company's Martinez refinery mid-day on July 17, would normally be sluiced to other fuel tanks in the following 24 hours. Sixty-seven officers and...

at Las Medulas in León, where seven long aqueducts enabled them to sluice most of a large alluvial deposit. The mines at Roşia Montană in Transylvania...

flowed around the estate via a system of interconnecting lakes, ponds and streams linked by a network of dams, water sluices, bridges and cascades. Spring...

mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico" as a means of "augmenting his [father's] pay with a mining venture", during which he "sluiced inland rivers and crisscrossed...

Department of Agriculture. He is especially known as the constructor of a Nile sluice (1112), which was called after him "Baḥr Abi al-Munajja". He fell into...

there was plenty of gold to be found by sluicing. Taylor purchased a new dray, as well as a red waggonette with a white tilt (canvas canopy), and two horses...