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flume

[floom] / flum /


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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

Magic Mountain’s vintage take on a log flume attraction is no-frills — our boats go up a lift, enter a brisk current and then speed down a hill.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 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

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

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

From The Yosemite by John Muir

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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

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

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

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 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

The fluming was the largest size, patent-metal stuff, half round, joined with rods, riveted and clinched.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

Now trestle and fluming lay in bent, rent, and riven ruin at the bottom of the coulée.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe




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