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founderous, a.|ˈfaʊndərəs|
Also foundrous.
[f. founder v. + -ous.]
Causing or likely to cause to founder; miry, full of ruts and holes.
1767Hull & Anlaby Road Act 2 The other roads..are become very founderous for travellers. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 267, I have travelled through the negotiation, and a sad founderous road it is. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner 111, Poor pilot I, by snows confounded, And many a foundrous pit surrounded! 1844Williams Real Prop. (1873) 314 Where a public way is foundrous, as such ways frequently were in former times. |