Outfall Definition

outfôl
outfalls
noun
The outlet of a river, sewer, etc.
Webster's New World

(dialectal) A quarrel; a falling out.

Wiktionary
verb

(obsolete) To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Outfall

Noun

Singular:
outfall
Plural:
outfalls

Origin of Outfall

  • From Middle English outfallen, equivalent to out- +"Ž fall. Compare Dutch uitvallen (“to fall out, sally"), German ausfallen (“to fall out, lunge"), Swedish utfalla (“to fall out").

    From Wiktionary

  • From out- +"Ž fall. Compare Dutch uitval (“outburst, sally, eruption"), German Ausfall (“falling out, sally"), Swedish utfall (“sally, issue").

    From Wiktionary

Outfall Sentence Examples

  • The southern outfall works of the London main drainage system are at Crossness in the neighbouring lowland called Plumstead Marshes.

  • Nine or ten miles before reaching its outfall the river enters St Petersburg, and 5 or 6 m.

  • From here to its outfall in the China Sea the river winds for some 400 m.

  • There are actually two distinct systems, north and south of the Thames, having separate outfall works on the north and south banks of the river, at Barking and Crossness.

  • Issuing from the lake within Nicaraguan territory, the San Juan has a course of 95 m., mostly along the frontier, to the Colorado Mouth, which is its main outfall, and belongs wholly to Costa Rica.

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