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Outfall   Listen
noun
Outfall  n.  
1.
The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.
2.
A quarrel; a falling out. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Outfall" Quotes from Famous Books



... out at the most favourable hour—five in the afternoon, with my 10-ft. Kosmie rod, weighing exactly 6 1/4 ounces. I like myself to fish with a single fly, and I anchored my boat about 30 ft. from the head of the outfall sluice. The fly was the B. Pond, so called because it is a favourite on a lake of that name, and, as you will see, it was a 2 per cent. Sproat hook. These big fish have a habit of showing on the top, and I had marked where it rolled. It had been in ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior



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