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Flume

noun

A narrow gorge with a stream running through it. Synonym: gulch.

Watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs.

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"Flume" Quotes from Famous Books

... them inside the shed to show them the handling of the newly shucked oysters. First the oysters were dumped into something that looked like Mrs. Albi's electric washer, and washed and washed. Then they were emptied into a flume, a narrow trough along which they were swept into bright cans that held almost a gallon each. The cans were stored in ice-packed barrels, and early next morning would go out in trains and trucks to all parts of ...

— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means

... be seen also the human flotsam and jetsam of this northern country—miners, prospectors, drifters, government employees, and adventurers—all caught here as though in the cleats of a flume, at this focusing-point at the foot of the wild ...

— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough

Words linked to "Flume" : watercourse, waterway, gorge