noun. A narrow gorge, usually with a stream flowing through it.

noun. An open artificial channel or chute carrying a stream of water, as for furnishing power or conveying logs.

noun. A very small swimming pool designed with a propeller or pump to generate a current, allowing a swimmer to swim in place.

In gold-mining, to carry off in a flume, as the water of a stream, in order to lay bare the auriferous sand and gravel forming the bed.

In lumbering, to transport, as logs or timbers, by a flume.

To conduct a channel or canal, by a flume, along an artificial temporary construction in situations where an earth or masonry channel cannot readily be secured by excavation and embankment.

To build a flume or artificial channel and its supporting construction.

noun. A stream; a river.

noun. In physical geography, in the United States, especially in New England, a narrow defile with nearly vertical walls, the bottom of which is usually occupied by a mountain torrent.

noun. An artificial channel for a stream of water to be applied to some industrial use.

noun. An inclined trough in which water runs, used in transporting logs or timbers.

noun. A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

noun. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.

noun. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.

noun. a narrow gorge with a stream running through it

noun. watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs

"And that a flume is an open artificial water channel, that leads water from a diversion dam or weir completely aside a natural flow, often an elevated box structure (typically wood) that follows the natural contours of the land?"

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gorge  watercourse  waterway  

Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  

alluvion  aprendiz  aqueduct  culvert  deck-load  

abysm  abyss  aqueduct  arroyo  avenue  

flumes  fluming