geyser

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hot spring that periodically throws jets of water and steam into the air

   The geyser erupted just after sunrise, sending steam above the valley.

2. 2
   noun

   a sudden forceful jet of liquid or gas

   A geyser of water burst from the broken main.

3. 3
   verb

   to rise or burst out in a forceful jet

   Water geysered through the crack in the pipe.

From Icelandic Geysir, the name of a famous hot spring, from geysa ("to gush"). English generalized the proper name in the nineteenth century to any intermittently erupting hot spring.

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