ränni
“ränni” is a Finnish word. Its 15 meanings in English:
- chute, gutter, flume (trough or tube used to move liquids or granular solids from a higher level to a lower level)
- chute (trough or tube through which water passes to a wheel)
- timber slide (water-filled chute for moving timber past rapids and waterfalls)
- guttering, rainwater drainage system (system for collecting rainwater from the roof and leading it down to a drain or to the ground)
- Any of the main components of such system, particularly a downpipe or downspout (syöksytorvi), or a gutter (sadevesikouru).
- launder (trough used by miners to carry water or materials suspended in water)
- sluice box (box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box)
- strip (trough for washing ore)
- vein, especially in connection with intravenous drug use
- A functionally similar part of a sports facility:
- ramp (part of a ski jumping hill used for gathering speed for the jump)
- gutter (trough on either side of the lane into which wide balls fall)
- boards (side boards of an ice hockey rink when used to steer the puck)
- track
- (ice) path, (ice) channel (narrow waterway through the ice cleared by an icebreaker)
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