flume

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The construction of this flume was a tremendous undertaking, but by now the firm could borrow on its timber.

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  1. noun A narrow gorge, usually with a stream flowing through it.
  2. noun An open artificial channel or chute carrying a stream of water, as for furnishing power or conveying logs.
  3. noun A very small swimming pool designed with a propeller or pump to generate a current, allowing a swimmer to swim in place.

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  • Then a gleam of light showed far along that earthwork that dammed the river toward the flume, a glimmering like illusion, a trick of the eyes in the night and the curtain of water. —  Cherryh, CJ - Hestia (v1.0) (html)
  • Clanton said he hopes the flume will be completely covered by the back fill by the end of the week. —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • The list of activities speaks for itself: a 70-foot long snow flume will be available for sledding, there will be a professional snowboarding competition, and you can try snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, enter a snow sculpture contest, and eat free samples from NY State farmers and producers in a Warming Hut! —  The Bwog
  • What a flume is. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
  • There is a dreadful flume, the machinery of which keeps up the most dismal moaning and shrieking all the livelong night, painfully suggestive of a suffering child. —  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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  1. Middle English flum, river, from Old French, from Latin flūmen, from fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scarcely found in early modern English; Middle English flum, flom (rarely flem, fleme, later English dial. fieam, q. v.), a stream, a river; cf. Icelandic flaumr, an eddy, Norwegian flaum, flom, a flood, overflow, inundation, Danish flom, a water-meadow, a swamp, Middle High German flūm, pflūm, phloum, vloum, a stream, a river. These forms are somewhat irreg., some of them being plausibly referable to the root of flow, q. v., but all are in fact of Latin origin, from Old French flum = Provencal flum = Italian fiume, from Latin flūmen, a stream, a river, from fluere, flow: see fluent.
  2. from flume, n., 3.
 

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