buddle
/ˈbʌdəl/
verb
- To wash or separate ore (such as tin or lead) in a shallow trough or vat of water.
- Miners used to buddle the crushed ore to separate the valuable minerals.
- In the 19th century, workers would buddle the gravel by hand to extract the tin.
- The old tin mine still has the remains of the troughs they used to buddle the ore.
noun
- A shallow trough or vat used for washing ore.
- The miner poured the crushed rock into the buddle and added water.
- The museum displayed an old buddle used in the local tin mines.
- They built a wooden buddle beside the stream to process the ore.