balerful

Updated: May 21, 2025

A bucketful of the earth to be washed is thrown into the tray, and the person who is to rock the cradle taking a balerful of water, throws it uniformly on the mass in the tray, and keeps rocking and washing till the gold becomes obvious.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430: Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852