| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Beet flumer | Occupations | 1: Fills flumes (troughs) with sugar beets, performing any combination of following duties: Trips lever on gondola loaded with beets, or removes sideboards on storage bin allowing beets to spill into flume. Prods beets with bar to maintain continuous flow of beets. Washes gondola or storage bin, using water hose. Dumps truckloads of beets into hopper and feeds beets onto conveyor leading to flume or storage bins. Removes leaves, stems, and trash from flume, using shovel or pitchfork. Loads rocks extracted from flume onto dump truck. (references) | |
| 2: Tends equipment that conveys water and sugar beets from storage bins through flume to washroom: Pushes button to start equipment and turns steam and water valves to admit heated water into flume. Turns crank to raise storage bin gate to start flow of sugar beets into flume. Turns valves to increase or decrease flow of water and beets through flume into washroom according to bell, telephone, or light signals. Observes flow of beets in flume to detect jamming and loosens jams, using bar. Notifies supervisor of equipment malfunction. May maintain equipment, using handtools. (references) | |||
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