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floom
n. (context US archaic English) A flume, as in a mill flume.
WordNet
Usage examples of "floom".
Dern, without displaying any of the interest and suspicion he felt at the advent of men who were unmistakably Voorstoders, asked for their names—Mugal Pye, Epheron Floom, Preu Flandry, and a young man called Ilion Girat—without giving his in return.