flume

[ floom ]

/ flum /

noun

a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.

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.

verb (used with object), flumed, flum·ing.

to transport in a flume.

to divert (a stream) by a flume.

Nearby words

fluidrachm, fluke, flukey, fluky, flumadiddle, flume, flummery, flummox, flump, flung, flunisolide

Origin of flume

1125–75; Middle English flum < Old French ≪ Latin flūmen stream

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Examples from the Web for fluming

To our unbounded surprise, we found, on our return from the American Valley, that nearly all the fluming companies had failed.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52|Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
There 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
Fluming water for poultry is, like irrigation, a community project.
The Dollar Hen|Milo M. Hastings
Now trestle and fluming lay in bent, rent, and riven ruin at the bottom of the coulée.
Desert Conquest|A. M. Chisholm

The simplest way to arrange this will be by wooden surface troughs as used in the fluming scheme.
The Dollar Hen|Milo M. Hastings

British Dictionary definitions for fluming

flume

/ (fluːm) /

noun

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

verb

(tr) to transport (logs) in a flume

Word Origin for flume

C12: from Old French flum, ultimately from Latin flūmen stream, from fluere to flow

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