chute

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
noun sloping channel through which things can descend
verb jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

From French chute.

Some of these chutes were utter solitudes. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
He was over on the Des Chutes." — Red Men and White, Owen Wister
BROWNSVILLE--Snagged and sunk in Brownsville Chute, 1849. — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick

parachute

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