chute

An inquest into her death in 2006 heard a safety bar designed to restrain passengers as the ride plummeted down a near-vertical chute at 50mph had not been lowered before it started.

Gaba drew parallels with the memory holes in George Orwell’s “1984,” which are incinerator chutes that burn references to the past, allowing the government to rewrite history without leaving a trace of the deception.

There are realms of adulthood I just can’t get to, because every time I climb a ladder of effort, I fall down a chute of impulsivity.

At Invicta House there has been a spate of fires, apparently started deliberately, in chutes used to send rubbish to the ground floor.

As on all rapids rides, the turbulent river, buoyed by narrow chutes, moves in an unpredictable fashion.