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flumes

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plural of flume

Synonyms of flumes

1 a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage

hiked through the flume and into the meadow beyond it

Synonyms for flumes

canyons
(also cañons),
cols,
couloirs,
defiles,
gaps,
gills
[British],
gorges,
gulches,
gulfs,
kloofs
[South African],
linns
[chiefly Scottish],
notches,
passes,
ravines,
saddles

Words Related to flumes

abysses,
chasms,
cirques,
clefts,
crevasses,
crevices,
cwms
[chiefly British],
fissures

combes
(also coombes or coombs)
[British],
dales,
dells,
glens,
hollows,
shut-ins,
vales,
valleys

basins,
floodplains,
kettles

arroyos,
barrancas
(also barrancos),
coulees,
draws,
gullies
(also gulleys),
gutters,
nullahs,
trenches,
troughs,
wadis,
washes
[West]

2 an open man-made passageway for water

built a flume next to the road for runoff

Synonyms for flumes

aqueducts,
canals,
channels,
conduits,
courses,
racecourses,
raceways,
watercourses,
waterways

Words Related to flumes

millraces,
millstreams

floodways,
sluices,
sluiceways,
spillways

swashes,
tideways,
torrents

gutters,
troughs

rivers,
rivulets,
streams

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