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Geyser   /gˈaɪzər/   Listen
Geyser

noun
1.
A spring that discharges hot water and steam.






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"Geyser" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the well came in. It came with a rush and a roar, drenching the derrick with a geyser of muddy water and driving both crew and spectators out into the gloom. Up, up the column rose, spraying itself into mist, and from its iron throat issued a sound unlike that of any other phenomenon. It was a hoarse, rumbling bellow, ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... the most spectacular volcano of the earth, while the earthquake is its common attendant. But in the older United States the volcano contents itself with an occasional puff of smoke, and eruptive phenomena are confined to the minor form of the geyser. ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various

... spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet^; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike^, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary. geyser, spout, waterspout. body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^, hygre^; fresh, freshet; indraught^, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^, whirlpool, Maelstrom, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... couldn't feel a breath of wind. But the snow seemed to writhe an' stir as though some monster from the Arctic night was wakin' from his winter sleep, an' a wisp of snow hurled upwards; then, with a heave the snow crust broke an' fell apart an' a column of snow shot up like a geyser swirlin' into a pillar a ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler



Words linked to "Geyser" :   overflow, brim over, outflow, well over, overrun, Old Faithful, run over, spring, natural spring, outpouring, fountain



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