chute

They’ve been using it as a kind of laundry chute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

“Someone might have stolen my spot because they ran down a 3,000-meter ski chute where gravity is helping you,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2025

She and Leo hit the chute hard and slid into the cavern, landing right on top of Pasiphaë.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sand and stone were chuted from the tower bins directly into the charging hopper below.

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