Definition of Fountaining

1. Verb. (present participle of fountain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fountaining

1. fountain [v] - See also: fountain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountaining

fount of honour
fountain
fountain code
fountain codes
fountain decussation
fountain pen
fountain pens
fountain water
fountained
fountaineer
fountaineers
fountainhead
fountainheads
fountaining (current term)
fountainless
fountainlet
fountainlets
fountainlike
fountains
fountains of youth
fountainwater
fountful
founts
founts of honor
founts of honour
founttain
four
four-acceleration

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 Anima Poetæ from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)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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