guyser

• Then wed stick our heads up over the top of the trench an watch it throw up mud in the air like Old Faithless guyser. —  "Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
• a lover to eschew the trysting thorn, or a warrior to fly the scene of his country's glory; neither would it have been safe, for no good guyser of the old school would take the excuse of being in bed in lieu of the buttered pease-bannock -- the true hogmanay cake, to which he was entitled, by "the auld use and wont" of Scotland; and far better breathe the smoke of the —  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17

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