chute

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sloping channel for conveying things downward

   The mail slid down the chute to the sorting room below.

Simplified etymology

Chute meaning “sloping channel” entered English in early-18th-century North American usage from French chute, originally “fall,” especially of water or rocks. The French word derives from Latin cadere, “to fall,” and the English form was influenced by shoot.

From French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot.

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