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  • verb Present participle of debouche.

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Examples

  • A big coal waggon, loaded with lump coal and drawn by four huge horses, just debouching from Kearny

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • A big coal wagon, loaded with lump coal and drawn by four huge horses, just debouching from Kearny Street as though to turn down Market, blocked their way.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • Two other cuirassier regiments can be seen debouching from the valley on the right of the picture.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • Two other cuirassier regiments can be seen debouching from the valley on the right of the picture.

    Battle of Lobositz - Feb. 8, 2009 Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • Over the first three days of the Crusader offensive, the British armoured divisions which made up the bulk of XXX Corps had almost achieved a link-up with the debouching Tobruk garrison, but over the following three days those armoured divisions had been almost destroyed.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • A century later, western imperial forces are again chasing unruly Pashtun tribesmen on the wild Northwest Frontier and raiding parties of Pashtun mountain warriors are again debouching from the fabled Malakand Pass.

    Eric Margolis: Return of the "Mad Mullah" 2009

  • Archidamus, debouching upon a flat space of ground where the roads to Eutresia and Medea converge, drew up his troops and offered battle.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Infantry, too, drawn up in line upon the banks above the cavalry, threatened to prevent them debouching into

    Anabasis 2007

  • Dana — debouching into sea under the name of river — as navigable from Mount Kenia.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • I saw perfect fans of alluvial debris debouching onto desert floors, each a signature of millions of years of mountain erosion.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

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