debouching

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debouching - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Debouching.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis-
     or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca
     the cheek. Cf. Disembogue.]
     To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot,
     into open ground; to issue.
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           Battalions debouching on the plain.      --Prescott.
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     2. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge
        out into an open valley or a plain.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]