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chute

[shoot] / ʃut /


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Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

LEXINGTON, Neb.—Wet concrete slid down the cement truck’s chute, marking Ramon Prado’s latest construction project in his adopted hometown.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

PITTSBURGH—Lemon, a five-pound Chihuahua, waited at the starting line until her owner signaled “go,” then pulled a wheeled cart weighing 260 pounds down a 16-foot chute.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

There are realms of adulthood I just can’t get to, because every time I climb a ladder of effort, I fall down a chute of impulsivity.

From Salon Nov. 29, 2024

Blocks the light in the chute while it falls.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

A survey where people are cattle chuted to these options: open the square and this, open the square and this, open the square and this.

From Slate May 25, 2021

Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben.

From Time Magazine Archive

News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once we were chuted up, we had to stay on our feet because it would be impossible to get back up without help.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the other case the sand and the stone were chuted directly into the charging hopper from overhead bins and the mixer discharged into one-batch buckets on cars.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

The encircling mountains are a kind of flood-making machine, chuting rain down arroyos and canyons for killer floods, most memorably in 1914, 1934 and 1938.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2022

When chuting is not practicable it will pay often to shovel the stone into buckets handled by a stiff-leg derrick rather than to unload it onto the bank.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

A third man will level off the sand and stone in the measuring hopper and help in the chuting.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette




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