Synonyms of flumes

flumes

noun

plural of flume

1

as in canyons

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

hiked through the flume and into the meadow beyond it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canyons
• ravines
• gorges
• valleys
• gulches
• saddles
• gaps
• passes
• linns
• cols
• abysses
• gills
• basins
• couloirs
• crevices
• chasms
• defiles
• fissures
• kloofs
• notches
• cirques
• glens
• trenches
• crevasses
• gulfs
• clefts
• gullies
• gutters
• cañons
• vales
• kettles
• hollows
• troughs
• dales
• gulleys
• dells
• combes
• floodplains
• arroyos
• coulees
• washes
• coombes
• coombs
• barrancas
• wadis
• cwms
• nullahs
• barrancos
• shut-ins
• draws

2

as in canals

an open man-made passageway for water

built a flume next to the road for runoff

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canals
• aqueducts
• watercourses
• waterways
• rivers
• raceways
• sluices
• conduits
• spillways
• sluiceways
• racecourses
• floodways
• channels
• courses
• torrents
• streams
• gutters
• troughs
• rivulets
• millstreams
• millraces
• swashes
• tideways