Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Discharge, as of the water of a river into the ocean or a lake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disemboguing; discharge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disemboguing ;discharge .
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Examples
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If the Gerres issues from its eastern side, from its western springs the Maw, that singularly picturesque stream, which enters the ocean at the place which the Saxons corruptly call Barmouth and the Cumry with great propriety Aber Maw, or the disemboguement of the Maw.
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Aber, as perhaps the reader already knows, is a disemboguement, and wherever a place commences with Aber there to a certainty does a river flow into the sea, or a brook or rivulet into a river.
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