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flume

[floom] / flum /


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In 2000, a 37-year-old man died after he climbed out of a log flume on the Splash Mountain ride at the Magic Kingdom in Florida and was struck by another passenger boat.

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

The park extended into flume rides, wave pools, and a lazy river.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

The water supply was brought from the mountains several miles distant, flumed where necessary, and then conveyed underground in cement pipes made and laid by the Indians under the direction of the padres.

From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton

The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity, and the factory is working till late at night. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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

Here the miners found it more economical to purchase water from a fluming company than to pump it from the river.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

There were sidehills, which are dangerous because they have an annoying habit of sliding when water-soaked, and gulches which would necessitate fluming.

From The Land of Strong Men by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

The simplest way to arrange this will be by wooden surface troughs as used in the fluming scheme.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)




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