Lavador

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant.

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).

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miner's moss

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