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Examples
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There they were in use for many years mainly for hauling logs and lumber to and from the mills on the summit, whence it was "flumed" to
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Without ploughman you preacher, and then you dissolve in hollenshead's tear-jerkers, and it was of Denmark you flumed.
Berkeley Stations 2010
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I hadnt yet flumed out of there; I wasnt sure what to do.
Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007
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The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity, and the factory is working till late at night.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Spray flumed up, creating gossamer veils of sparkling droplets surrounding her, but never quite touching her.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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And this tract of beautiful big trees can be gotten and flumed -- or something -- down to a railroad that taps the country.
The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905
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The water supply was brought from the mountains several miles distant, flumed where necessary, and then conveyed underground in cement pipes made and laid by the Indians under the direction of the padres.
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890
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Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity, and the factory is working till late at night.
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The alluvials in the bottoms should here prove unusually rich, and means might be adopted by which they should be raised mechanically and then flumed down again.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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