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Flume

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(through an O. Fr. word Plum, from the Lat. flumen, a river), a word formerly used for a stream, and particularly for the tail of a mill-race. It is used in America for a very narrow gorge running between precipitous rocks, with a stream at the bottom, but more frequently is applied to an artificial channel of wood or other material for the diversion of a stream of water from a river for purposes of irrigation, for running a sawmill, or for various processes in the hydraulic method of goldmining (see Aqueduct).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Flume'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​f/flume.html. 1910.
 
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