Definitions for flumes

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flumes flume

Spelling: [floom]

IPA: /flum/

Flumes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in flumes (eflmsu).

Definitions for flumes

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 flumes

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

Examples for flumes

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.

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

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

"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.

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.

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

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