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n. Plural form of flume.

"The only relief from the flumes was the precipices; and the only relief from the precipices was the flumes, except where the ditch was far under ground, in which case we crossed one horse and rider at a time, on primitive log-bridges that swayed and teetered and threatened to carry away."

flumes    fluming   

gorge    watercourse    waterway   

rating flume   

stream    channel   

Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   

openbsd    tpo    aprendiz    wainscoting    need-fire    alluvion    culvert    viaduct    qanat    aqueduct