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Flume   /flum/   Listen
Flume

noun
1.
A narrow gorge with a stream running through it.  Synonym: gulch.
2.
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



... gold in the beds of rivers, below low-water mark. The only practicable method of doing this is by damming the stream, and taking the water out of its bed, in a ditch or flume. It has been proposed by persons who never saw the mines, to get the gold by dredging, or with a diving-bell; but such schemes are absurd in the eyes of miners. The rivers in which the gold is found are mountain-torrents, ...
— Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining • John S. Hittell
... down the shore, sometimes upon the old and broken flume that runs along the seaward face of the hills that rise from the beach, or sometimes upon the beach itself, stepping from bowlder to bowlder, or holding along at the edge of the water upon reaches of white, ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... survey! I never had a plat of any such survey. I don't recognize any such survey. And if your right-of-way men had ever said a word about crossing the creek above the flume I never would have given you a right ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman
... pushing a little ahead, she took the road which ran straight into the flume-veiled darkness. Nor did she turn to look again at the Thing from the ...
— The Gifts of Asti • Andre Alice Norton
... the reason of Rough-and-Ready trembled in the balance. No work was done in the ditches, in the flume, nor in the mills. Groups of men stood by the grave of the lamented relict of Daddy Downey, as open-mouthed and vacant as that sepulchre. Never since the great earthquake of '52 had Rough-and-Ready been so ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte


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


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