spout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.
Inflected forms:
form: spouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
pos: noun
examples: I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap
gloss: A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
pos: noun
gloss: A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
pos: noun
examples: A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
gloss: A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
pos: noun
examples: […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore.
The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall is much rent, and has fallen forward[…]
[…] a streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve me for a water-tap.
[…] you can follow a footpath from the fine Victorian Mallyan Spout Hotel to the national park's most famous waterfalls – the 80ft-high Mallyan Spout. When you get to the beck, turn left, and the waterfall is a couple of hundred yards along the bank; it can be wet underfoot[…]
gloss: A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.
From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'
gloss: A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
pos: noun
examples: He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.
gloss: The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
pos: noun
gloss: A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: To gush forth in a jet or stream
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Water spouts from a hole.
gloss: To eject water or liquid in a jet.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The whale spouted.
The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.
gloss: To speak tediously or pompously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pray, spout some French, son.
gloss: To pawn; to pledge.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
examples: to spout a watch
Derived words: aspout
bespout
downspout
landspout
lick spout
outspout
rainspout
sandspout
spouter
spoutfish
spouthole
spoutless
spoutlike
sputter
upspout
up the spout
waterspout
spout off
spout out
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