Associations to the word «Chute»

Wiktionary

CHUTE, noun. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
CHUTE, noun. Parachute
CHUTE DOGGING, noun. A rodeo event in which the competitor attempts to bring the steer to a line ten feet from the chute and wrestle (or "dog") the steer to the ground.

Dictionary definition

CHUTE, noun. Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall.
CHUTE, noun. Sloping channel through which things can descend.
CHUTE, verb. Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats