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geyser|ˈgeɪsə(r), ˈgaɪsə(r), ˈgaɪzə(r), ˈgiːzə(r)|
Also 9 geysir.
[a. Icel. Geysir, proper name of a particular hot spring in Iceland; literally ‘gusher’; related to geysa, ON. gøysa to gush.
By non-Icelanders the word has been used as an appellative to denote any of the springs of this kind in Iceland, and hence it has been extended to similar springs in other parts of the world.]
1. An intermittent hot spring, throwing up water, etc. in a fountain-like column.
[1763Ann. Reg. VI. (1768) Characters 95/1 Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal, is but a few miles from Skaa[l]holt. ]1780tr. Von Troil's Iceland (ed. 2) 256 Among the hot springs in Iceland, several of which bear the name of geyser, there are none that [etc.]. 1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 323 It can scarcely be doubted that the Geysers in Iceland..are occasioned by the subterranean fires which extend under that island. 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 122 Mrs. Rory's hot room, that makes one steam like a Geyser. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 476 The Azores..abound in geysers.
fig.1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 163 Ere the Geyser could explode, Tom had continued, in that dogged nasal Yankee twang which [etc.]. c1883Farrar Nation's Curse 8 Any man who calls himself a Christian, would have been..afraid to swell those geysers of curse and ruin. 1884A. Smith Pref. Burns' Wks. (Globe) 14 But years after from a sudden geysir of impassioned song we learn that through all that time she had never been forgotten.
2. The name given to an apparatus for rapidly heating water attached to a bath. Also for the heating of water for use in wash-basins, sinks, etc. (See also geezer.)
1878Gas Engineer Feb. 184 (Advt.), The instantaneous water heater; or Maughan's Patent Geyser..so constructed that any quantity of hot water can be drawn from it with the utmost facility. 1891Daily News 9 Apr. 7/1 What the cost of reinstating a ‘geyser’ would be he could not tell. 1897Oxford Chron. 30 Oct. 7/4 The geyser or gas apparatus for heating the bath was turned full on. 1920L. C. Hale American's London viii. 109 The aristocratic landlady was telling me of the advantage of her own particular geezer... I moved closer to descry the lettering on the cylinder, and lo! it was a geyser. I suppose the word is universally mispronounced over here because they have not been brought up in a geyser country. 1929S.P.E. Tract xxxii. 400 The mechanical device for heating bath-water made geyser a household word, and though the introducers gave it the vowel of grey, the pronunciation as in key gained ground. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 83 A crude precursor of the ‘Ascot’ gas heater—known to various Lady Helps as the geezer, the gayzer or the guyzer.
3. attrib., as geyser-flood, geyser-tube.
1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxvi. (1878) 454 The boiling *geyser-floods of old affection rush from the hot deeps of the heart.
1863Tyndall Heat iv. §150 (1870) 128 Stopping our model *geyser-tube with corks. |