a. Also foundrous. [f. FOUNDER v. + -OUS.] Causing or likely to cause to founder; miry, full of ruts and holes.
1767. Hull & Anlaby Road Act, 2. The other roads … are become very founderous for travellers.
1796. Burke, Regic. Peace, iii. Wks. VIII. 267. I have travelled through the negotiation, and a sad founderous road it is.
1805. Wordsw., Waggoner, III.
| Poor pilot I, by snows confounded, | |
| And many a foundrous pit surrounded! |
1844. Williams, Real Prop. (1873), 314. Where a public way is foundrous, as such ways frequently were in former times, the public have by the common law a right to travel over the adjoining lands, and to break through the fences for that purpose.
