noun.
In turpentine-making, the projection of the lower gutter beyond the center of the face. See gutter, 9.
noun.
A narrow part of a river, with a swift current.
To issue with force, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; spurt: as, blood spouts from an artery.
To discharge a fluid in a jet or continuous stream; send out liquid as from a spout or nozle; specifically, to blow, as a whale.
To speak volubly and oratorically; talk or recite in a declamatory manner, especially in public: speechify.
To pour out in a jet and with some force; throw out as through a spout or pipe: as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
To cause to spurt or gush out.
To utter volubly or grandiloquently.
To pawn; pledge. See spout, n., 2.
To furnish or provide with a spout, in any sense: as, to spout a roof; to spout a tea-kettle.
noun.
A pipe, tube, or trough through which a liquid is poured, and which serves to guide its flow.
noun.
A lift or shoot in a pawnbroker's shop; hence, vulgarly, the shop itself.
noun.
A continuous stream of fluid matter issuing, actually or seemingly, from a pipe or nozle; a jet or column, as of water.
noun.
Specifically— A waterspout.
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The column of spray or vapor emitted from the spout-hole of a whale during the act of expiration, resembling the escape of steam from a valve.
noun.
The spout-hole of a whale.
noun.
A short underground passage connecting a main road with an air-head: a term used in the thick coal-workings of South Staffordshire, England.