spout

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

spouts

1.
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap
2.
A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
3.
A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
4.
A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
5.
A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'
6.
A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
7.
The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
8.
(Australia)A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

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verb

V_es/s

spouts

V_ing/Gerund

spouting

V_ed/pp

spouted

1.
(intransitive)To gush forth in a jet or stream
Water spouts from a hole.
2.
(ambitransitive)To eject water or liquid in a jet.
The whale spouted.
3.
(intransitive)To speak tediously or pompously.
4.
(transitive)To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
5.
(dated, slang, transitive)To pawn; to pledge.
to spout a watch

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From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> spuiten to spout), from *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare spruta. See also spit, spew.