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flume

[floom] / flum /


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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

Mock-ups of the experience, presented to Disney fans at the D23 convention on Saturday, showed a log flume plummeting down Pride Rock as Rafiki the monkey watches on.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

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.

From The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James

Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

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 George Wharton James

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 Samual Hall Young

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

"When you going to start fluming 'em down?"

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

There is nothing which impresses me more strangely than the fluming operations.

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

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 A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm


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