Flume: alternatives and connections

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by…

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or…

An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin bu…

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…

Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hyd…

A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into th…

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.