What is "founts"

Usage examples of "founts".

And when they hit the churning water-ice beneath, they created new secondary plumes, new founts of destruction.

The founts gushed harder as they descended—water pressure, Malenfant thought—and soon the spiral canals were filled with bubbling, frothing liquid, which took away some of the staleness of the still air of the well.

But the founts and channels were severely damaged by fire, cracked and crudely repaired.

Farther out still, the founts of gas lost their structure, becoming dim, diffuse.

She could hear the roar of the great gas founts, smell the stale photons diffusing out toward space from the remote core.

The convection founts grazed the surface, at their most extreme points.

A hundred meters down, water spouted from clay founts, elaborately shaped, mounted on the walls.