flume
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Disneyland officials said the teen climbed out of the boat in the flume, or channel, that takes guests through Tiana’s Bayou Adventure before the ride was over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
This was a commencement, not a log flume.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
He bought the fibreglass vessel after Alton Towers closed the flume ride in 2016.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 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
You’re supposed to wear flip flops if you’re walking from the tide pool to the lazy river, the flume ride, the group inner-tube ride, or the slides.
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 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
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
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.
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
In a few cases, extensive fluming enterprises have proved profitable; but, as a general rule, river-mining in this state has cost more than it has produced.
From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell
The fluming was the largest size, patent-metal stuff, half round, joined with rods, riveted and clinched.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
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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