Noun: flume
| Singular | flume |
| Plural | flumes |
Sample Sentences
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Near the upper end of the portage the river falls 100 feet in as many rods, the water going at lightning speed through a natural flume in the rock. So rapid is the descent that the water in the flume is but 3 feet deep. We named this the "Devil's Slide." [1898, Recreation, page 31:]
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[...] the flumes are generally not dark rides and they run much faster. Two notable exceptions are the Timber Mountain[…] [2001, Dale Samuelson, Wendy Yegoiants, The American Amusement Park, Motorbooks International, →ISBN, page 90:]
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[…] aqueducts, wooden half-barrels laid on their sides and elevated on rusty trestles, to rush the icy spring water down the mountainside to the fields. This system of irrigation through flumes was simple, but effective. There were miles of flumes and, […] the children of the island used the flumes as water slides. The location of certain especially fast and dangerous flumes was kept secret in families for generations and passed on in unquestioned solemnity . It was against the law to use the flumes as water slides[…] [2012 July 4, Susanna Moore, The Whiteness of Bones, Vintage, →ISBN, page 4:]
Nouns inflected like flume
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
5. Latin fluō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
7. Proto-Italic *-mn̥
8. Latin -men
9. Latin flūmen
10. Old French flumbor.
11. Middle English flum
12. English flume
13. From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”). See: Middle English Nouns '
flum', Latin Nouns '
flumen'.
Verbs referencing "flume"
Portuguese Nouns
flume.