transitive. Gold-mining. To shake (a cradle) back and forth in water, in order to separate the gold. Also intransitive: to use a cradle in this…

Originally U.S. transitive. To wash (gold-bearing gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan, in order to separate the gold; to separate (gold) from gravel, etc…

To wash (auriferous gravel) in a miner's cradle. Also with out: To extract by cradling. Also absol. and figurative.

transitive. Mining. To mix (soil containing gold, opals, etc.) with water in a container, in order to separate out the precious substances. Also in…

U.S. and Australian. To wash (auriferous ore) in a gold-miner's sluice. Also with out.

to wash up: to retrieve (gold) from the riffles, sluices, etc., in which it has collected during washing. Also absol.

transitive. To separate (grass seed) from refuse by shaking the mixture in a special way; to separate (ore) similarly or by winnowing.

intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to rock out: to dance to rock music enthusiastically and in an improvised manner; (hence)…