Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Panning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pan \Pan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Panned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Panning}.] (Mining)
To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind
of pan. [U. S.]
We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and
panning out, which is the last process of separating
the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. --Gen.
W. T. Sherman.
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