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Spewing hot spring
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geyser
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geyser \Gey"ser\, n. [Icel. geysir, fr. geysa to rush furiously, fr. gj[=o]sa to gush. Cf. Gush .] A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. Note: Geysers were first known ...
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n. a spring that discharges hot water and steam v. to overflow like a geyser
Wikipedia
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A geyser (; or ) is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. The formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions, which exist in only a few places on Earth, so they are ...
Usage examples of geyser.
A metre-wide geyser of water slammed upwards out of the gap, buffeting the corpse with it.
Sarah Maria Ann Effingham was the legal owner of three hundred and thirty thousand shares of the capital stock of the Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company.
Fumbling in her black bag she pulled forth a flaring certificate--of the regulation kind, not even engraved--which evidenced that Sarah Maria Ann Effingham was the legal owner of three hundred and thirty thousand shares of the capital stock of the Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company.
Water Front and Terminal Company, Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company--dozens and dozens of them, and not one has an office or, so far as I can find out, any tangible existence--but the one I spoke of.
Just as the hippogriff slipped into a steep-banked turn, the geyser spewed forth another shuddering blast.
It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.
He shouted to her to remove it, and frantically groped in the depths of the geyser with his clamp, hoping to recapture the spouting pedicle by mere blind chance.
Tranter, who was now steaming like a geyser and smelling like a polecat, choked and blinked his eyes.
Water and slime geysered into the air, raining down on the startled Valeman.
His testicles unleashed a writhing, twisting geyser of sperm and semen.
Flinging up his hands, he conjured a gust of murky flame that blasted toward Flax, but it was quenched in mid-flight by an equally fierce geyser of conjured water sent by the wizard.
There was a slitch, and Krona crumpled to the ground, a geyser of yellow-green blood where his head used to be.
Their route lay across this wondrous region of volcanic lakes, geysers, and solfataras, which extended to the east of the Wahiti Ranges.
Then there came another earthshaking explosion, and sheets of flame came spewing out of the two peaks in twin geysers of liquid fire reaching up and up toward the sky and spattering the sides of nearby peaks with globs of molten rock.
Vigorous geysers of water sprouted under the compressor nozzles, splashing up against the carbotanium fuselage.