flume
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Disneyland officials said the teen climbed out of the boat in the flume, or channel, that takes guests through Tiana’s Bayou Adventure before the ride was over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
This was a commencement, not a log flume.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
The only thing missing was the noise of the Al Nassr striker's trademark 'siu' celebration echoing round the plastic flume as he flew down it.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
Following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Nunis wanted a log flume attraction that would serve as the next big water ride at Disneyland.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
But here I am, sopping wet, like I’ve just deboarded the log flume at the Kennywood amusement park back home in West Mifflin.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Like the Unitarians, they poked for gulls' eggs in the Island's scarred, flumed granite listened to lectures, held seminars and attended services in the little Gosport Meeting House.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There they were in use for many years mainly for hauling logs and lumber to and from the mills on the summit, whence it was "flumed" to Carson City.
Along a narrowing arm of the mountain, a deep canyon flumed a rushing torrent of icy water from a small glacier on our right.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.
From The Yosemite by Muir, John
The alluvials in the bottoms should here prove unusually rich, and means might be adopted by which they should be raised mechanically and then flumed down again.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Leingang, who had been at Dixson’s lab since 2016, says he had become increasingly suspicious of her findings, in part because she usually collected her fluming data alone.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
One former colleague became “slowly more suspicious,” especially about the fluming studies, and began to monitor them covertly.
From Science Magazine ● May 6, 2021
Many ditches in California have miles of fluming.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
Sometimes these fluming companies are eminently successful; at others, their operations are a dead failure.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
The coarse meal was put into a dilly-bag and placed in running water below a slight fall, from the lip of which fluming, improvised from the leaf of native ginger, conducted a gentle stream.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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