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Esʹtuary

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Literally, the boiling place; the mouth of a river is so called because the water there seems to seethe and boil. (Latin, œstuo, to boil.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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