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geyser
/ˈɡaɪ.zɚ/
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What does geyser mean?
noun
- A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
- A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
- A domestic water boiler.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
noun
- (archaic) An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
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The aqueous vapours, discharged through great spiracles, do not contain alkali in solution, like the waters of the Geyser, in Iceland.
They are said to be afraid of fire-mountains and geyser basins as being the dwelling places of dangerously powerful and unmanageable gods.
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This mighty geyser of wires is fifty tons in weight and would, if straightened out into a single line, connect New York with Chicago.
Riding a stout pony each, and leading another packed with our bedding, etc., we broke our way from the upper to the middle geyser basin.
"The giddy, rapid rivers," were narrow brooks, Hecla seemed but "half the height of Hermon," the Great Geyser was invisible until you were almost on the top of it.