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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 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

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

There is a gigantic project now on the tapis, of fluming the entire river for many miles, commencing a little above Rich Bar.

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

There were sidehills, which are dangerous because they have an annoying habit of sliding when water-soaked, and gulches which would necessitate fluming.

From The Land of Strong Men by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

Again, to avoid expensive fluming the ditch wound sinuously around the flanks of several steep sidehills, and to disturb existing sidehill ditches is to invite slides, which necessitate flumes.

From The Land of Strong Men by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm




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