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flume

[floom] / flum /


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Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

A state agency tasked with inspecting theme park rides found no operational issues with Tiana’s Bayou Adventure after a 13-year-old climbed out of the Disneyland log flume ride and fell 50 feet over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

This was a commencement, not a log flume.

From Slate ● May 27, 2025

Following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Nunis wanted a log flume attraction that would serve as the next big water ride at Disneyland.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

But here I am, sopping wet, like I’ve just deboarded the log flume at the Kennywood amusement park back home in West Mifflin.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Like the Unitarians, they poked for gulls' eggs in the Island's scarred, flumed granite listened to lectures, held seminars and attended services in the little Gosport Meeting House.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

There they were in use for many years mainly for hauling logs and lumber to and from the mills on the summit, whence it was "flumed" to Carson City.

From The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James

The water supply was brought from the mountains several miles distant, flumed where necessary, and then conveyed underground in cement pipes made and laid by the Indians under the direction of the padres.

From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James

The alluvials in the bottoms should here prove unusually rich, and means might be adopted by which they should be raised mechanically and then flumed down again.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Leingang, who had been at Dixson’s lab since 2016, says he had become increasingly suspicious of her findings, in part because she usually collected her fluming data alone.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

One former colleague became “slowly more suspicious,” especially about the fluming studies, and began to monitor them covertly.

From Science Magazine ● May 6, 2021

To our unbounded surprise, we found, on our return from the American Valley, that nearly all the fluming companies had failed.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Many ditches in California have miles of fluming.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

Halfway to the river they came upon the first evidence of dynamite in the form of a bit of wrecked fluming.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe


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