disembogue

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Will looked again towards the flagon; but great was his dismay on beholding it in the very act of disemboguing its precious contents into another gulf as insatiable as his own.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

For upon their entering upon that sea, they violently press upon it, and so cause the flow; but they disemboguing themselves, there is a cessation of the impetuousness, by which means the ebb is produced.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The same Coltham coach stopped at the Lamb Inn, and the same group of idle loungers took an interest in its disemboguing of its contents.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

As these must make angles to each other, in order to form different roads, the land towards the disemboguing of the river will take the arrangement of a triangle.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)