Definitions for flume

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Spelling: [floom]

IPA: /flum/

Flume is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in flume (eflmu).

Definitions for flume

noun

1. a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
2. an artificial channel or trough for conducting water, as one used to transport logs or provide water power.
3. an amusement park ride in which passengers are carried in a boatlike or loglike conveyance through a narrow, water-filled chute or over a water slide.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport in a flume.
2. to divert (a stream) by a flume.

Origin of flume

1125-75; Middle English flum Old French ≪ Latin flūmen stream

Examples for flume

"The flume has fallen and turned the river," said Christie hurriedly.

If that's lost the whole expedition will be up the flume, as we miners used to say.

The flume, the ditch, and the wing-dam, are the chief tasks of the river-miner.

We were a wet lot when we reached the terminus of the flume.

"I never heard Mr. Munroe say that the flume was wrong," said Jessie quickly.

"We have achieved the flume, the Pool, and the Basin to-day," said he at length.

Granger was attending to the flume which they had constructed.

The 'boat' is built like the flume, V shaped, and fits into the flume.

A flume had to be constructed before it could again be used.

And what's the use of the gold in the ground when the flume isn't there to work it out?