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noun

a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.

an artificial channel or trough for conducting water, as one used to transport logs or provide water power.

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)

to transport in a flume.

to divert (a stream) by a flume.

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Origin:
1125–75; Middle English flum < Old French ≪ Latin flūmen stream

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flume (fluːm)

—n
1.	a ravine through which a stream flows
2.	a narrow artificial channel made for providing water for power, floating logs, etc
3.	a slide in the form of a long and winding tube with a stream of water running through it that descends into a purpose-built pool

—vb
4.	(tr) to transport (logs) in a flume

[C12: from Old French flum, ultimately from Latin flūmen stream, from fluere to flow]

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flume

c.1175, "stream," from O.Fr. flum, from L. flumen "river," from fluere "to flow" (see fluent). In U.S., used especially of artificial streams channeled for some industrial purpose.

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"Still farther on we scrambled up the rocky channel of a brook, which had long served nature for a sluice there, leaping like it from rock to rock, through tangled woods, at the bottom of a ravine, which grew darker and darker, and more and more hoarse the murmurs of the stream, until we reached the ruins of a mill, where now the ivy grew, and the trout glanced through the crumbling flume; and there we imagined what had been the dreams and speculations of some early settler. But the waning day compelled us to embark once more, and redeem this wasted time with long and vigorous sweeps over the rippling stream."

-Henry David Thoreau

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