2. An artificial channel or trough for conducting water, as one used to transport logs or provide water power.
3. An amusement park ride in which passengers are carried in a boatlike or loglike conveyance through a narrow, water-filled chute or over a water slide.
"You've made me backward because the city is too stretched, thin as day, and I
am a flume, a fluke, a flounder"
--Anthony Robinson, Top Twenty Places to Start a Family"