ajutage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ajutage, from ajoutage, from ajouter (“to add”), from Latin adjuxtare, from ad + juxta (“near to, nigh”). Compare adjutage, adjustage, adjust.

Noun

ajutage (plural ajutages)

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube.
the ajutage of a fountain

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ajutage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)