flume
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There was a mishap Sunday evening on a Disneyland log flume ride that led to a 13-year-old being transported to a hospital, according to Disney Resort officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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
A flume of vomit arched onto the floor.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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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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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 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
Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
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
I think that I gave you a vague idea of fluming in a former letter.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
The simplest way to arrange this will be by wooden surface troughs as used in the fluming scheme.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
Wherever catas, or 'women's washings,' are found, we can profitably apply the hydraulic system of sluicing and fluming not by an upper reservoir only, but also from below by a force-pump.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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