Flume

[fluːm] or [flum]

Definition

(noun.) watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs.

Checked by Bertrand--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Editor: Shanna

Definition

n. an artificial channel for water to be applied to some industrial purpose: (U.S.) a narrow defile with upright walls the bottom occupied by a torrent.—Be or Go up the flume to come to grief to be done for.

Edited by Dinah