vomitory

• From F, as from a great vomitory, it then radiated in all directions bearing along with it the moraines with which it was loaded and spreading them out on all sides over the great plain. —  The Antiquity of Man
• From this vomitory the old glacier poured into the plains of the Po that wonderful accumulation of mud, gravel, boulders, and large erratics, which extend for 15 miles from above Ivrea to below Caluso and which when seen in profile from Turin have the aspect of a chain of hills. —  The Antiquity of Man
• No. There is a volume of smoke, as if the chimney were in flame -- a tumultuous cloud pours aloft, straggling and broken, through the broad slate stones that defend the mouth of the vomitory from every blast. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• a black beast leaped forth from the deep vomitory. —  Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms