flume
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In 2000, a 37-year-old man died after he climbed out of a log flume on the Splash Mountain ride at the Magic Kingdom in Florida and was struck by another passenger boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
This was a commencement, not a log flume.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
Mock-ups of the experience, presented to Disney fans at the D23 convention on Saturday, showed a log flume plummeting down Pride Rock as Rafiki the monkey watches on.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
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
The park extended into flume rides, wave pools, and a lazy river.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
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The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity, and the factory is working till late at night.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Along a narrowing arm of the mountain, a deep canyon flumed a rushing torrent of icy water from a small glacier on our right.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
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
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
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
Many ditches in California have miles of fluming.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
Here the miners found it more economical to purchase water from a fluming company than to pump it from the river.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
And he had allowed this costly bit of fluming to lie open to destruction when it was the very key to the situation, so far as the ranchers were concerned!
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
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