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Definition of Fountaining
1. fountain [v] - See also: fountain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountaining
Literary usage of Fountaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply by Philip à Morley Parker (1913)
"(ff) By fountaining, or the upward removal of sand, which is indicated as probable
near the points J, and Jt (see Sketch No. 68). This depends only TI upon ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"... broken in four or five places by almost circular spatter-walls erected thereon,
within whose circumference are lakes, fountaining heavily and flinging ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"... in amount than would be required on the assumption that the nitrogen had come
in as air (entrapped in sinking crusts or carried down by fountaining, ..."
4. Anima Poetæ from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"... even as thought and fancies in the mind; the points of so many cherubic swords
snatched back, but never discouraged, still fountaining upwards; ..."
5. Insurgent Mexico by John Reed (1914)
"Into the red glare of the firelight they staggered, with the struggling, squealing
sheep in their arms, its blood fountaining upon the ground, ..."
6. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"... others (1987). more fissure-like, or less cylindrical, the tremor amplitudes
are higher by about a factor of 7 for the same height of lava fountaining. ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1920)
""Fountaining", as spouting sand, is technically termed, is prevented and consequently
also "piping". This latter term defines the gradual removal of sand ..."
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