chute
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The paratrooper, outfitted with a cheap plastic chute, never lived up to his promise, even if deployed from the second floor of a school classroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
General waste for Jackie's flat is sent down a chute into a large container in the bin store at one corner of the block.
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
I am in a dim hallway that smells like garbage—this must be where the Candor trash chute is.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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
We chuted up and pulled the adjustment straps down good and tight because we knew we were so loaded that we were going to get one hell of an opening shock.
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
Furthermore, when run-of-crusher stone is chuted from the crusher into a bin or pile the screenings and the coarse stones segregate.
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
