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Noun: flume  floom
  1. Watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
    "The lumber mill used a flume to transport logs down the mountain"
     
  2. A narrow gorge with a stream running through it
    "The prospectors searched for gold in the rocky flume";
    - gulch

Derived forms: flumes

Type of: gorge, watercourse, waterway

Encyclopedia: Flume