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spouter|ˈspaʊtə(r)|
[f. spout v.]
1.
†a. = spout-hole 1. Obs.—1
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 75 The Indian..thrusteth in a logg into one of his spowters, and..knocketh it in so fast that by no means the whale can get it out.
b. A spouting whale.
1830N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 519 In a calm to-day, we had a number of whales, and the whole tribe of spouters about the vessel. 1845Encycl. Metrop. VII. 344/1 The Spouters are mostly characterized by width, flatness, shallowness, and equal extent of the jaws. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 645 Spouter, a whaling term for a South Sea whale.
c. A whaling-vessel. Also Comb.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast v, The ‘spouter’, as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail. Ibid. xxv, When we got on board, we found everything to correspond—spouter fashion. 1901F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 208 I've been fishing now a good many years in Yankee spouters.
2.
†a. A reciter or amateur actor. Obs.
c1760(title), The Spouter's Companion; or Theatrical Remembrancer, containing..Prologues and Epilogues [etc.]. 1779Mirror No. 54 ⁋14 People may be spouters without culture; but laborious education alone can make perfect actors. 1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 2), Spouters Club, a meeting of apprentices and mechanics to rehearse different characters in plays. 1809Malkin Gil Blas x. x. (Rtldg.) 372 The major-domo, a great spouter, undertook to train me for the stage.
b. A fluent or voluble declaimer or speaker.
1782V. Knox Ess. clii. (1819) III. 170 The judicious observer..despises him..as the mere rival of the noisy spouters at the Forum. 1809T. Pickering in M. Cutler's Life, etc. (1888) II. 317 The other spouters, implicitly confiding in their leaders, are but parrots repeating the notes proceeding from the palace. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xl, Foker..voted Erith a prig and a dullard,..the dreariest of philanthropic spouters. 1884Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel June 262 There's no stopping these foaming spouters—they must just run themselves dry.
3. a. One who, or that which, spouts out something.
1796Lamb in Final Mem. (1848) I. i. 201 These mighty spouters out of panegyric waters have..scattered their spray even upon me.
b. A spouting oil-well.
1886Pall Mall G. 13 Oct. 6/1 How long Tagieff's ‘spouter’ will last, and what its ultimate yield will be, will depend upon circumstances. 1901Daily Chron. 31 May 7/1 There have been some honest companies.., and these have worked to pay dividends by securing a spouter.
4. pl. Coals loaded from a spout.
1821Acc. Peculat. Coal Trade 3 Coal merchants..are always anxious to purchase spouters, as the coals are of a larger quality. |