chute

[< F]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a falls or rapids.

See: shoot ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1793

[We] slept at the chute a Blondeau.

1824

These high banks prevail to the approach of the Chutes or falls in Peace River.

1883

These places are called "chutes," and are generally narrow, crooked, and precipitous descents of the river. . . .

1965

The river leaves Isaac Lake by a short fast chute. . . .

2n.

a fast-moving stretch of water over a relatively smooth bed.

See: riffle ((v.))(def. 1c)

1819

I perceived the canoe avoid the rapid and enter a shute.

1956

[We met with] a long, oily chute, black as frozen molasses, white water on each side of us and white water ahead

3n. — Lumbering

an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.

See: slide(def. 1a)

1903

. . . a dozen rivermen, one after the other, would often go through the chute of a dam standing upright on single logs.

1947

On Porcupine Lake a dam had been built to control the flow of water, and the chute itself was nineteen hundred and fourteen feet long.