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A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

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  1. n. A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
  2. n. a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
  3. n. watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
  4. A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
  5. A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for thewater that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water forhydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs orlumber down a declivity.
  6. n:100 n. watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs