sluicern.
/ˈsluːsə/ 1. One who attends to a sluice; a sluice-keeper.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > who attends to weir or sluice
weir-keeper1791
sluicer1873
1873 Daily News 4 Oct. This money..was what I earned at Daylesford... I was a sluicer.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 715 Sluicer's boot, with calks [for loggers].
2. U.S. and Australian. A gold-miner who works at a sluice.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > goldminer > by washing
gold washer1625
puddler1855
sluicer1890
blacksander1897
1890 Goldfields of Victoria 22 The puddlers and sluicers are gradually decreasing in number.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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