Debouch - What does it mean?
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(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
* 1888 , May 26, Phillip Carroll, Sulphur Mines in Sicily , in
(military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
* 1887 , , McClellan's Own Story ,
To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
:* 1985', the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which '''debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
:* 1993', Ungrateful brats '''debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, ''My Idea of Fun
:* 1997', the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last '''debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
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(debouches)Scientific American Supplement, No 647,
- In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ...
- To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg.