Flume is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLUME in dictionary:

VERB:
• to convey by an artificial water channel
• transport (logs) in a flume
NOUN:
• an artificial channel conveying water, typically used for transporting logs or timber.
• a winding tubular water slide or chute at a swimming pool or amusement park.
• narrow sloping channel for water
• 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.
• a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
• watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to convey by means of an artificial water channel

Words related to FLUME

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Words that contain FLUME

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How to use FLUME in a sentence

• The great wheel below the flume rolled all day, throwing over its burden of diamond drops, and tilting the ponderous hammer with a monotonous clatter.
• It was supported by ledges of rocks on each bank, and there was a flume, which conducted the water to the wheels of the mills.
• The water that was lifted was carried away from the works in a flume 160 meters in length, which likewise removed the water from the motive wheels.
• As we ascended, we continually got nearer to this flume, which was run on a grade, and at last we passed under it.
• We could see ahead of us where it, like the flume earlier in the day, reached the river level.
• She shook off the spell and arose, approaching closer to the bank and flume where Gettysburg was toiling.
• Down this was a long wooden chute, or flume, like a big trough, which for the last thirty or forty feet at its lower end curved upward.
• Each stick shot down the flume like lightning, up the short incline at the end, and soared away like a bird to the pile beyond and below the shed.
• The construction of this flume was a tremendous undertaking, but by now the firm could borrow on its timber.
• Gradually climbing upward, we come to a tract of land that is watered by the Flume.
• On the edge of the hillsides the Flume may be seen, which furnishes many ranches as well as the city of San Diego with the purest mountain water.
• The flume no longer furnished a supply, and he stared open-lipped, wondering if the enemy had meddled with his water-gate in the upland.
• Red climbed the bank to the flume, and raised the gate.
• The flume that fed water to the pool was fenced all the way up to the springs.
• He tore down a portion of the fence enclosing the flume, and gave Silvermane a drink, then put him to a fast trot on the white trail.
• Even the board flume had been burned to a level with the glancing sheet of water.
• You will find a little package of food at the end of the mill flume.
• We put in a flume between two falls on the Middle Fork, but made only wages, and I got my arm nearly broken, and had to work with one hand for nearly a month.
• Then they put stakes at the sides and rigged a canvas flume over their bridge through which they turned the whole current of the river, leaving a nearly dry bed beneath.
• These men were, without doubt, the inventors of the canvas flume which was afterward used so successfully in various places.
• The water was brought in a ditch or flume to the top of a high bank, and then terminated in a tight box.

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