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[[File:Goyet_Overshot_water_wheel.JPG|400px|right|Figure 1. An overshot waterwheel with a flume directing water onto it.<ref>Wikimedia Commons. (August 27, 2015). ''Goyet Overshot Waterwheel'' [Online]. Available: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Goyet_Overshot_water_wheel.JPG</ref>]]
[[File:Goyet_Overshot_water_wheel.JPG|400px|framed|right|Figure 1. An overshot waterwheel with a flume directing water onto it.<ref>Wikimedia Commons. (August 27, 2015). ''Goyet Overshot Waterwheel'' [Online]. Available: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Goyet_Overshot_water_wheel.JPG</ref>]]


<onlyinclude>A '''flume''' is a deep, narrow  channel that is used to transport [[water]] from some source - such as a river - to the top of a [[waterwheel]]. This is used to direct water flow onto the blades of the wheel, allowing it to move.</onlyinclude><ref>Whitemill. (August 27, 2015). ''Types of Water Wheels'' [Online]. Available: http://www.whitemill.org/z0028.htm</ref>
<onlyinclude>A '''flume''' (also leat or mill-leat)<ref>Oxford English Dictionary entry: lade</ref> is a channel that is used to transport [[water]] from some source - such as a river - to the top of a [[waterwheel]]. This is used to direct water flow onto the blades of the wheel, allowing it to rotate.</onlyinclude><ref>Whitemill. (August 27, 2015). ''Types of Water Wheels'' [Online]. Available: http://www.whitemill.org/z0028.htm</ref>


The phrase ''flume'' is only used to describe the water channel in an [[waterwheel#Overshot Wheel|overshot waterwheel]]. For [[waterwheel#Undershot Wheel|undershot]] or [[waterwheel#Breastshot Wheel|breastshot waterwheels]] where no man made channel is necessary to direct water onto the wheel, the flume tends to be called the '''[[mill race]]'''.  
The phrase ''flume'' is only used to describe the water channel in an [[waterwheel#Overshot Wheel|overshot waterwheel]]. For [[waterwheel#Undershot Wheel|undershot]] or [[waterwheel#Breastshot Wheel|breastshot waterwheels]] where water is directed abreast or underneath the wheel, the channel feeding the wheel is called the '''[[mill race]]'''.  


Other special names for a flume include a leat, lade, or goit.
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Figure 1. An overshot waterwheel with a flume directing water onto it.[1]

A flume (also leat or mill-leat)[2] is a channel that is used to transport water from some source - such as a river - to the top of a waterwheel. This is used to direct water flow onto the blades of the wheel, allowing it to rotate.[3]

The phrase flume is only used to describe the water channel in an overshot waterwheel. For undershot or breastshot waterwheels where water is directed abreast or underneath the wheel, the channel feeding the wheel is called the mill race.

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References

  1. ↑ Wikimedia Commons. (August 27, 2015). Goyet Overshot Waterwheel [Online]. Available: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Goyet_Overshot_water_wheel.JPG
  2. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary entry: lade
  3. ↑ Whitemill. (August 27, 2015). Types of Water Wheels [Online]. Available: http://www.whitemill.org/z0028.htm
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