Synonyms:
sluicing
Meaning: pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
Usage examples
Naturally, the last comers of '58 were too late to get a place on the gold-bars, and they went back to the coast in disgust, calling the gold stampede 'the Fraser River humbug.' Nevertheless, men were washing, sluicing, rocking, and digging gold as far as Lillooet.