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debouch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. Disembogue.] To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Battalions debouching on the plain.
--Prescott.
2. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geography English) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours. 2 (context military English) A fortress at the end of a defile. vb. (cx intransitive English) To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
WordNet
v. march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley" [syn: march out]
pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river"
Wikipedia
In the geography of rivers, streams, and glaciers, a debouch, or debouche, is a place where runoff from a small, confined space emerges into a larger, broader space. The term is of French origin and means to cause to emerge. The term also has a military usage.
Usage examples of "debouch".
As to Istria, I feel that Alexander and Smuts, for several natural and very human reasons, are inclined to disregard two vital considerations: the grand strategy firmly believed by us to be necessary to the early conclusion of the war, and the time factor as involved in the probable duration of a campaign to debouch from the Ljubljana Gap into Slovenia and Hungary.
I had forged ahead for perhaps a mile or more without hearing further sounds, when the trail suddenly debouched onto a small, open plateau near the summit of the pass.
Starting at a point on the edge of, and almost overlooking the Jordan Valley, it runs approximately due east and west, with many turns and even hairpin bends, until it debouches on the Plain at Mejdel Yaba, thence forming a main tributary of the River Auja.
Deep in this picturesque ravine, buried among the thick shadows of tall old trees, runs the narrow mill-road, which lower down debouches on the end of the village street.
The tunnel debouched into a corbeled chamber, dry and dusty and crammed with neat piles of bones laid into alcoves that gleamed fitfully as Elafi turned all the way around to shine his light into each one.
The passage twisted like a maimed serpent, and then abruptly debouched into a sweeping valley of lush green, bisected by a tinkling stream that spilled from the rock-face near where Bazo stood.
As they turned they saw a company of bowmen debouching upon the plain from the gate through which they had but just passed.
The path led to a shallow hollow that didn't show from above, which fed into a cave, which debouched into a crevice, which finally gave up and let them into a tunnel down into the ground.
They followed it until it debouched into a medium hall, and followed that until it emptied into a large hall.
The stairs debouched into a dark, murky room, heavy with the smell of mildew, damp earth, and—what?
The tunnel debouched into a wide room before the moonlight played out, an empty cavern of no great dimensions, but with a lofty, vaulted roof, glowing with a phosphorescent encrustation, which, as Conan knew, was a common phenomenon in that part of the world.
It stood at the end of Linda Lane where it debouched onto Flagler Drive.
The far end of the PVC pipe debouched more than a city block away from the house, beside a private dock on Lake Worth.
This would mean that there ought to be an orderly progression from entirely fresh water at the mouth of the Susquehanna, where it debouched into the bay, to entirely salt water at the spot where the bay debouched into the sea.
He entered the Congo River where it debouched into the Atlantic, far south of the Gulf of Guinea.