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Chute   /ʃut/   Listen
noun
Chute  n.  
1.
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
2.
See Shoot.





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"Chute" Quotes from Famous Books



... furnaces the roasted ore is taken in ore cars to large hoppers or bins situated immediately behind the grinding and amalgamating vats, locally known as "tinas," into which the ore is run from the bin through a chute fitted with a regulating slide. The tinas or amalgamating vats constitute the prominent feature of the Francke process; they are large wooden vats, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, page 173, from 6 ft. to 10 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep, capacious enough to treat ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various
... little disappointed, but she smoothed the dress over her sharp knees, and continued: "Right there the good old days ended for yore ma—and for us. The cattle business has been steadily on the chute—that is, the free-range business. I saw it comin', an' I says to Jackson, 'Camp on some river-bottom and chuck in the alfalfy,' I says. An' that's what we did. We got a little bunch o' cattle up ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... nuit, un globe de lumiere S'echappa quelquefois de la voute des cieux, Et traca dans sa chute un long sillon de feux, La troupe suspendit sa marche solitaire. [Charlemagne. Pomme Epique, ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... je vis souffrant,[93] et je ne pourrois fournir la course.[94] Ah! sans le respect de la compagnie, je ferois des cris[95] percants. Je me brisai hier d'une chute sur l'escalier, je roulai tout un etage, et je commencois d'en[96] entamer un autre quand on me retint sur le penchant. Jugez de la douleur; ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... but added nothing to the story. He had gone to the chute to mail some letters; the woman must have entered the office while he was away. He saw her come out again, but, of course, did not see her face. He had been employed recently, and did not know ...
— The Holladay Case - A Tale • Burton E. Stevenson


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