Flume (mill)
See also: Flume
The term flume indicates, initially, the opening by which water runs out coming from a Bief and which, in its fall, involves the movement of the wheel of a Water mill. When the mill is stopped, this opening is simply closed.
The term flume also indicates, always in the same field, according to the TLFi, the channel by which water runs out when the mill does not turn.
The term comes from old French abéer who means to open the mouth .
See also Glossary of archeology
Note: Gabriel Feydel (1744-1827), lawyer and politician French, affirms, in the edition of 1807 of its Remarques morals, philosophical and grammatical on the Dictionary of the French Academy (source), that flume would be a Barbarisme, and that, according to him, the millers, to indicate the opening of water run-off, would have employed only the term of Bée (which also exists in Maçonnerie, to indicate “bée of a door” or “bée of a window”).
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