Meaning & use
flume
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a narrow artificial channel that carries water, or a water-slide ride built to resemble one.
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Loggers once used the mountain flume to float timber down to the mill.
The kids screamed with delight as their raft dropped down the log flume.
A note on using this word
Originally an industrial term for a water channel; now most familiar as the name of amusement-park log flume rides.
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