What is "chutes"

Usage examples of "chutes".

He handed one of the chutes to Salizar, then buckled himself into the other.

Once, in one of these lovely island chutes, we found our course completely bridged by a great fallen tree.

INTERIOR SPACEPORT - GARBAGE ROOM Luke slides through a series of chutes until he winds up in a large room full of muck.

Have Artoo shut down all garbage chutes in the immediate con- necting bays.

I bowed our heads over the altimeter actuators on our chutes and put our thumbs to the set dials.

Worse comes to worst, we can unpack the chutes and wrap ourselves in them.

The chutes and the brakes stopped the ship with its nose gear twenty feet past the other end of the runway.

Austin and Tamara Zigon barely felt their chutes crack open when the ground rushed up at them.

Have Artoo shut down all garbage chutes in the immediate con necting bays.

You don't run close chutes on a falling river, up-stream, and there are precious few of them that you are allowed to run at all down-stream.

Clara and I double-checked each other's gear to make sure that our chutes wouldn't tangle in any of our other equipment.

She remembered how, as she ran towards the waste chutes on the night Tom fell, she had passed someone heading in the other direction.

And there weren't any chutes, either, which meant no canopy for sun protection if they had to travel for several days.