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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Middle English forms of flume.

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  • Also from Bethany go men to flom Jordan by a mountain and through desert.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • This flom Jordan is no great river, but it is plenteous of good fish; and it cometh out of the hill of Lebanon by two wells that be clept Jor and Dan, and of the two wells hath it the name.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And also this flom Jordan departeth the land of Galilee and the land of Idumea and the land of Betron, and that runneth under earth

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And a mile from flom Jordan is the river of Jabbok, the which Jacob passed over when he came from

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • After is the kingdom of Mesopotamia, that beginneth, toward the east, to the flom of Tigris, unto a city that is clept Mosul; and it stretcheth toward the west to the flom of Euphrates unto a city that is clept Roianz; and in length it goeth to the mount of

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And in that flom Jordan above-said was our Lord baptised of

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And there be many good waters and good wells that come under earth from the flom of Paradise, that is clept Euphrates, that is a journey beside that city; and that river cometh towards Ind under earth, and resorteth into the land of

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • From that hill to Jericho, that I spake of before, is but a mile in going toward flom Jordan.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And ye shall understand, that within the Dead Sea, runneth the flom Jordan, and there it dieth, for it runneth no further more, and that is a place that is a mile from the church of Saint John the Baptist toward the west, a little beneath the place where that

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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