Flume

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flume \Flume\ (f;[=u]m), n. [Cf. OE. flum river, OF, flum, fr.
     L. flumen, fr. fluere to flow. [root]84. See {Fluent}.]
     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.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flume
       n 1: a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn: {gulch}]
       2: watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled
          with water for power or for carrying logs

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "flume":
     abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, bed, blowhole, box canyon,
     breach, break, canal, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check,
     chimney, chink, chute, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir,
     crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, culvert, cut, cwm,
     debouch, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, door, draw, dry bed,
     egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, excavation, exhaust, exit,
     fault, fissure, flaw, floodgate, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash,
     gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole,
     incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, loophole, moat,
     notch, nullah, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo,
     outlet, pass, passage, pore, port, race, ravine, rent, rift, rime,
     river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, sally port, scissure, seam,
     slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, spiracle, split, spout,
     stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tap, trench,
     valley, vent, ventage, venthole, void, vomitory, wadi,
     water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate,
     watercourse, waterway, waterworks, way out, weir