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sluice
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an artificial passage for water with a gate for controlling its flow or changing its direction
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hydraulic mining
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mining done by means of water
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perforated
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having a hole or series of holes through
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armature
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the part of an electric generator that consists of coils of wire around an iron core and that induces an electric current when it is rotated in a magnetic field
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Reuters
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a news agency started in 1851 in London to send stock prices between England and Paris
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Morse Code
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either of two codes consisting of dots and dashes or long and short sounds used for sending me
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sounder
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one that sounds; especially : a device for making soundings
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stock tickers
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machines that kept steady record on paper tape of the rise and fall of stock prices
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epidemic
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a sudden rapidly spreading outbreak or growth, especially in disease
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denim
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a firm durable twilled usually cotton fabric
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boomtowns
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towns experiencing a sudden growth in business and population
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frontier
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a region that forms the edge of the settled part of a country
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