OUTFALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outfall mean? 

• OUTFALL (noun)
  The noun OUTFALL has 1 sense:

1. the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water

  Familiarity information: OUTFALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTFALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outlet of a river or drain or other source of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("outfall" is a kind of...):

exit; issue; outlet; way out (an opening that permits escape or release)

 Context examples 

Sir William, said he, it is my intention to attempt a small deed, and I ask you therefore that you will lead this outfall upon the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I well remember that, on occasion of an outfall, a Genoan raised his arm over his mantlet, and shook it at us, a hundred paces from our line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As lord of the marches and guardian of an exposed country-side, there was little rest for him even in times of so-called peace, and his whole life was spent in raids and outfalls upon the Brabanters, late-comers, flayers, free companions, and roving archers who wandered over his province.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same instant the Welshmen upon the left, led on by the Scotch earl, had charged out from among the rocks which sheltered them, and by the fury of their outfall had driven the Spaniards in front of them in headlong flight down the hill.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)