Chute
[ʃuːt] or [ʃut]
Definition
(noun.) sloping channel through which things can descend.
(verb.) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute.
Checker: Lyman--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
(n.) See Shoot.
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Definition
n. a waterfall rapid: a channel down which to pass water logs rubbish &c.
Inputed by Joe
Examples
- The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The flanges easily accommodate the balls when placed on the chute by the pin boy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rough stock-strips for the alley bed, leveling strips, return chute, post and kick-backs are sawed out of certain of the logs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The machine operator drops the slabs of gum into a feeding chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The return chute, or loop-the-loop return, is the railway along which the balls travel in their return from the pit to the bowler. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the pit end, the chute is solidly constructed with a concave flanged surface placed on the top of the kick-back. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We could get out of either window onto the roof and down, or go down the hay chute if the stairs were impractical. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The old way was to hire boys to set up the pins on the spots and return the ball via the return chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was a chute so that hay might be pitched down to the cattle. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In succession are the chutes on which the crates of fenders are sent down from the fourth floor of the main factory building to the shipping platform. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sixty great dredges were employed on the work, and the dredged material was discharged in chutes on to the bank. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There will be noticed the vertical chutes, extending through the ceiling. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The bodies are let down the chutes on belt conveyors, picked up by small derricks and swung over onto the chassis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Chutes run from one machine to another, so that a workman can transport a part from his operation to the next one by gravity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Candice