1. artificial channels or chutes for carrying water, especially for industrial purposes or transportation of logs
2. water slides at amusement parks or water parks
3. narrow gorges or ravines with streams running through them
Usage: geological

Examples

• The logging company built wooden flumes to transport timber down the mountain.
• Water rushed through the flumes, powering the old mill wheel.
• The kids spent hours racing down the twisting flumes at the water park.
• The resort’s newest attraction features three giant flumes of different speeds.
• Hikers followed the trail along the rocky flumes carved by centuries of flowing water.
• The mining operation used metal flumes to wash gold from the gravel.
• Engineers inspected the concrete flumes that carried water to the power plant.