CHUTP (Fr. for " fall," of

See also:

• WATER

water or the like; pronounced as " shoot,' with which in meaning it is identical)  , a channel or trough, artificial or natural, down which objects such as timber, coal or grain may slide from a higher to a lower level . The word is also used of a channel cut in a dam or a river for the passage of floating timber, and in Louisiana and on the Mississippi of a channel at the side of a river, or narrow way between an island and the shore . The " Water-Chute " or water tobogganing, is a Canadian pastime, which has been popular in London and else;: where . A steep wooden slope terminates in a shallow lake; down this run flat-bottomed boats which rapidly increase their velocity until at the end of the " chute "they dash into the water .