单词 | debouch |
释义 | debouchn. rare. = debouch v. (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit outgangOE gatec1175 outletc1275 outgoinga1387 water gatea1393 ish14.. issuec1400 outgatec1485 ushing1489 outway1571 egress1660 utterance1662 débouché1760 debouch1813 gateway1842 outgo1869 outfall1883 outcome1885 1813 Examiner 7 June 354/2 Fortified rising points, which defended the debouches from the Spree. 1813 Examiner 3 May 274/2 The debouch from the Hartz. 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 696 The debouches of Villarcayo, Orduña, and Munguia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). debouchv. 1. Military (intransitive). To issue from a narrow or confined place, as a defile or a wood, into open country; hence gen. to issue or emerge from a narrower into a wider place or space. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from narrower to wider space debouch1760 society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > other manoeuvres shog1650 to hang on (also upon) someone's rear1667 incline1676 debouch1760 feint1854 leap-frog1920 1665 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 161 We have hardly any words that do so fully express the French..ennui, bizarre, débouche.. Let us therefore..make as many of these do homage as are like to prove good citizens.] 1760 London Mag. 29 177 We saw the column of infantry debouching into Minden plain. 1812 Examiner 23 Aug. 531/2 These two companies gave the..cavalry time to debouche. 1813 Examiner 7 June 355/2 General Bertrand..appearing to intend debouching from Jaselitz upon the enemy's right. 1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 128 The travellers debouched on the open plain of Aldington Frith. 2. transferred. Of a ravine, river, etc.: To issue as at a mouth or outlet into a wider place or space. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > flow (of river) [verb (intransitive)] > disembogue fallOE disbogue1589 empty1591 to have one's forth1597 disembogue1598 mouth1598 dimit16.. dischannel1607 ingurgitate1632 discharge1816 debouch1834 erupt1864 gurgitate1907 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 168 This little stream that debouches from the lake. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) xxii. 236 The ravine finally debouched upon the river at the Middle Bar. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. viii. 167 Nakidino Creek, into which an important stream debouches. 3. transitive (causal). To lead forth into open ground; to provide an outlet for. ΚΠ 1745 D. Forbes in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. IV. 355 No more than a hundred and fifty or a hundred and sixty of the Mackenzies have been debouched. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. vi. 69 Huge outlets which de bouche the waters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813v.1745 |
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