Sentence examples for use of a sluice from inspiring English sources

Another hand method involves the use of a sluice box.

In late 1804 a Royal Engineer colonel John Brown came up with a better idea: dig a 62-foot wide canal along the north edge of the march; keep its water level high with the use of sluices; and build a military road and rampart along its north bank so that it would function as a defended moat in case of French attack.

Both dams have been rebuilt in subsequent years and operate as diversion points for canals rather than impounding water by the use of sluice gates and head gates.

Shen Kuo also noted that proper use of sluice gates at irrigation canals was the best means of achieving success in the silt fertilization method.

The case with a single tall sill was simulated in a horizontal flume downstream of a sluice gate.

The continuous withdrawal of the coated product is realized by means of a sluice and an external separation tube.

Tom Mutschelknaus pans for gold using a sluice box on the South Fork of the Stanislaus River in Italian Bar, Calif.

Refilling of the breached section began on 4 March 2014 using a sluice gate at Rock Bridge which gradually filled the empty section and the canal was officially re-opened on 19 March 2014 by chairman of Devon County Council Councillor Bernard Hughes.

Fargo developed new methods for construction of earth embankment dams on foundations of soft soils, which made use of hydraulic sluicing.

In place of the Overfall he advised better use of three shallow sluices and one deep scouring sluice between the harbour and the New Cut, together with a dredging vessel.

During particularly dry years, water could be moved between the hydrological units through use of pumps and sluices to prioritize certain areas of the site and maintain them in good condition, even if other parts of the site had to be allowed to dry out.