flume
a deep narrow passage or mountain ravine with a stream flowing through it, often with great force: Hikers are warned to stay well clear of the flumes, especially during the spring thaw.
an artificial channel or trough for conducting water, as one used to transport logs or provide water power.
an amusement park ride in which passengers are carried in a boatlike or loglike conveyance through a narrow, water-filled chute or over a water slide.
to transport in a flume.
to divert (a stream) by a flume.
Origin of flume
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How to use flume in a sentence
Now trestle and fluming lay in bent, rent, and riven ruin at the bottom of the coulée.
Desert Conquest | A. M. ChisholmHalfway to the river they came upon the first evidence of dynamite in the form of a bit of wrecked fluming.
Desert Conquest | A. M. ChisholmThe simplest way to arrange this will be by wooden surface troughs as used in the fluming scheme.
The Dollar Hen | Milo M. HastingsSometimes these fluming companies are eminently successful; at others, their operations are a dead failure.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 | Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappeThere is a gigantic project now on the tapis, of fluming the entire river for many miles, commencing a little above Rich Bar.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 | Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
British Dictionary definitions for flume
/ (fluːm) /
a ravine through which a stream flows
a narrow artificial channel made for providing water for power, floating logs, etc
a slide in the form of a long and winding tube with a stream of water running through it that descends into a purpose-built pool
(tr) to transport (logs) in a flume
Origin of flume
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