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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHUTP (Fr. for " fall," of See also:water or the like; pronounced as " shoot,' with which in meaning it is identical)  , a channel or trough, artificial or natural, down which See also:objects such as See also:timber, See also:coal or See also:grain may slide from a higher to a See also:lower level . The word is also used of a channel cut in a See also:dam or a See also:river for the passage of floating timber, and in See also:Louisiana and on the See also:Mississippi of a channel at the See also:side of a river, or narrow way between an See also:island and the See also:shore . The " See also:Water-Chute " or water See also:tobogganing, is a See also:Canadian pastime, which has been popular in See also:London and else;: where . A steep wooden slope terminates in a shallow See also:lake; down this run See also:flat-bottomed boats which rapidly increase their velocity until at the end of the " chute "they dash into the water .

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