Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening or mouth, as of a river or stream.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mouth, opening out, or outlet; specifically, the opening out of a stream as it emerges from a confined valley or gorge upon an open valley or broad plain, or the junction between the narrow and the broad portion of a valley: also applied to the zone of change from a mountain track of high gradient to a plains track of much lower gradient and consequent decrease of load.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
outward opening of ariver ,valley , orstrait .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We presently passed on the right bank the debouchure of the Wady Ruways, and left there a guard to direct the caravan, in case it should disobey orders, and march up to Umm Ámil.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The next morning I reached the debouchure of the Jordan, where I had hoped to find a bar of sand that might render its passage possible.
Eothen 2003
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Ingenium contended that the Congo or Zaire was the Nigerian debouchure.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I now struck off towards the debouchure of the river; but I found that the country, though seemingly quite flat, was intersected by deep ravines, which did not show themselves until nearly approached.
Eothen 2003
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Thence we ascended a little to descend again, we continued over a ravine at nearly the same level, for some time proceeding over undulated ground: on reaching the debouchure of the ravine into a larger one running north and south, we commenced to descend rapidly until we came to an elevation situated above Tongsa, to this place the descent was excessively steep.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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On that portion of the Kayan called Brem-Brem the river presents a formidable array of kihams which defeated the government's attempt to establish communication between Apo Kayan and the debouchure of the river.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Should the northern branch which was seen to join amongst the ana-branches near its debouchure prove to be the larger stream, that followed by the party might still retain the name of "the Ferguson," given to it by the Brothers, in honor of the governor of Queensland.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The withered little old woman and the rosy-cheeked girl who were rowing, bent to their oars and pulled with all their might; but, having crossed the debouchure of the river, declared themselves unable to pull us round the headland.
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Upon reaching its debouchure on the Gulf coast, the termini of the two voyages would be united.
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Four miles from Jug Island the wide debouchure of Blue Creek came into view, with an unoccupied fishing - shanty on each side of its mouth.
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