chute
Pronunciation: /ʃuːt/
The English word “chute” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- A waterfall or rapid.
- A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
- An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
- A parachute.
- A spinnaker.
verb
- To parachute.
Etymology
From French chute.
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