spoutn.
/spaʊt/, U.S. /spaʊt/ I. An object that discharges or conveys a liquid, a channel through which something is conveyed, and related senses.
1.
a. A pipe or channel projecting outwards or downwards from a gutter on the side of a building, by which rainwater is drained from the roof; a drainpipe. Cf. roof-spout n. at roof n. Compounds 1a, waterspout n. 1a.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > spout
gargoyle13..
spout1392
rainspout1720
eaves-spout1846
eaves-shoot1889
1392 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 113 In salario Ricardi de Bettes facientis guturas cum spowtis super quamdam novam cameram..cum plumbo de stauro ecclesiæ.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 697 Gargoyl & many hidous hed With spoutis þoruȝ, & pipes.
1467 in Antiquary (1915) 51 410 (MED) Payd to the Plumer for makyng of the spowts of ledd & Sowdyr therto for schelyng of ledd & hyllyng of Saynt John Chapell.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 800/21 Hoc stillicidium, a spowte.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxvi In the fyrst worke were gargylles of golde fiersly faced with spoutes runnyng.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. iv. 7 The cesterne shall be set in such a place, as that it may receiue all that commeth from such spouts as are belonging to roofes or lower lofts of the house.
c1720 M. Prior Fatal Love 1 Poor Hal caught his death standing under a spout,..And curs'd was the weather that quench'd the man's flame.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 191 A spout (now of gold) discharges the rain-water, and the well Zemzem is protected by a dome.
1823 Act 4 Geo. IV c. 3 §42 A Spout..from the Roof down to the Ground, to carry off..the Water.
1845 A. Smith Fortunes Scattergood Family II. xiii. 184 The splashing cataracts from the eaves and spouts of the dwellings.
1929 L. W. Reese Victorian Village 285 The rector, the greengrocer, the boy who came to mend the spouts all listened.
1936 E. Gardner Handbk. Recreation Leaders 90 Along came a spider..And climbed up a spout..Down came the rain..And washed the spider out.
1978 Princeton Alumni Weekly 8 May 35/1 The French distinguish between gargoyles that actually serve as spouts and carvings that are purely decorative.
2008 Austral. Doctor 7 Mar. 1 Incey Wincey Spider climbed up the spout.
b. More generally: a pipe or nozzle for discharging fluid (typically water) in a jet or stream; that part of a fountain, pump, etc., from which water is emitted. Also figurative. Cf. waterspout n. 1a.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > spout
waterspouta1393
spout1408
cockc1483
jet1807
1408 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1899) 14 517 (MED) Les spowtes lignea ducentia aquam a dicto Watergate usque dictam rotam.
1548 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 259 Certane wther varklummes, sic as spowttis, spowtheouris [read spowcheouris], and cruikis, worth xxx s.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers sig. B iij Some rashe heades being Conchæ, before they be Canales, that is to say, Spoutes, before they have filled their Cesterne.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 122 The nose is giuen to man that it might serue the braine in stead of a pipe and spowt to purge it of flegmatike humours.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 25 And (gasping to begin some speech) her eyes Became two spouts . View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 316 Betweene the Riuer and this pond, there are sixe passages or spouts digged through the Banke.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 142 A beautiful Marble Fountain, where the Water runs continually thro' several little Spouts.
1747 J. Wesley Jrnl. Feb. (1849) I. 444 The constable came, seized upon the spout of the [hand] engine, and carried it off.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 117 The spout of the pump should be opposite the horizontal part of the pipe.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1020 The situation of the spout or trunk of wood..for supplying water to the cisterns.
1885 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 2/1 Another type of Correspondent there is whose function is to serve as spout for this or that Continental statesman.
1920 H. Moss Watson's Text-bk. Physics (ed. 7) xvii. 177 If a spout were fixed to the top of the barrel of the pump the liquid would flow out through it.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Apr. 6 A wall fountain..is a masonry trough to collect the water and a pump connected to a spout on the wall.
2010 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Aug. a1 Harmful pathogens that could live on fountain and cooler spouts include E. coli and legionella.
2.
a. A lip or tube projecting from a jug, bottle, or other container, to allow the contents to be poured out more easily.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > projecting aperture
spout1412
stroup1505
nosec1576
nozzle1683
nozzle-pipe1816
nozzle-screw1839
nosepiece1858
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > spout
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stroup1505
beak1651
1412 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/291/5) j lauour cum ij spoutys.
1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 101 j laver cum ij. spowtes deaurat. pond. vij. unc. et dim.
1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale v. i. f. 79v He had made him selfe an oile bottell,..hauinge a..spowt, whereby the oile might haue his issue.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 124 Mean-while the Skincker from his starrie spout, After the Goat, a siluer streame powres-out.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 125 We took a Glass-Cruet, with a small Spout, and fill'd it with Water.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Beak The spout of a cup.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 337 A hollow copper ball, with a long pipe;..through this spout it is to be filled with water.
1790 Act 30 Geo. III c. 31 §3 Spouts to China, Stone, or Earthenware Teapots.
1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth i. 4 The Kettle..carrying its handle with an air of defiance, and cocking its spout pertly.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds i. 7 He..willed to screw off the spout of the family tea-pot,..and..he did it.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End vii. 57 ‘But imagine the evenings,’ exclaimed her aunt, pointing to the Mansions with the spout of the watering-can.
1936 Pop. Mech. Feb. 224/2 A metal pouring spout makes it easy for the housewife to handle cereals, granulated sugar and salt without spilling.
2011 M. Ruhlman Ruhlman's Twenty vi. 119/2 Measure..the oil in a cup with a spout that will allow you to pour it in a thin stream.
b. A sloping trough or channel with open ends, by which flour, grain, coals, etc., may be discharged or conveyed from a higher to a lower point or receptacle; a chute. Cf. shoot n.1 6a, chute n.1 3a.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > chute
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chute1829
shoot1844
shute1847
?1532–4 Mery Iest Mylner Abyngton (de Worde) sig. B.ij The one clerke stode at the spoute There as the meale shulde come out.
1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 15 [They] hewed doun to the ground the spouttes of the compleaners said mylne.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 136 There must be in each side of the Granaries, Three or Four long Troughs or Spouts fixt in the uppermost Loft.
1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 55 Shipping the Coal, from an elevated Coal Steath and Spout, instead of by Hand-barrows.
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 3 The Coals descending from a spout into the vessel.
1884 Tyne Improv. Comm. Bye-Laws 29 Pitch..shall not be boiled..within 40 feet of any staith, drop, spout, warehouse or other erection on or near to the dock.
1919 Operative Miller Feb. 51/1 Such a business is not very desirable for flour mill spouts.
1954 R. H. Cochrane Farm Machinery & Tractors (ed. 2) 25 Seed is carried round in the flutes and is dropped down the delivery spouts on the other side.
2015 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 1 d It's recently been possible..to see water so high that barges on upper Midwestern rivers will not fit under the grain loading spout.
3. Scottish (now chiefly Orkney). A razor shell (superfamily Solenaceae), which sometimes squirts out liquid when digging or when disturbed.Cf. spout-fish n., spout shell n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
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razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
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razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1525 in Excerpta e Libris Domicilii Jacobi Quinti (1836) 7 Bukes, spouttis, grenbans, podlokis.
1591 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 318 Four casseis of coklis witht tua hundretht pintill fiches callit spowtis in augmentation of the rentall.
1676 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 285 For ilk burding of..spouts trouts mussills oysters..and wilks sex pennies.
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 55 The Sheath, or Razor Fish; our Fishers call them Spouts.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) IV. 9 Scollops, and Spouts, are cast up by the Tide in such Numbers on the Isles, that the People cannot consume them.
1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 93 Besides..rasor-fish or spouts, they have abundance of what are called culleocks and smurlins.
1837 R. Dunn Ornithol. Orkney & Shetl. 8 Razor-fish, commonly called spouts.
1891 T. E. Buckley & J. A. Harvie-Brown Vertebr. Fauna Orkney Islands 11 In three or four of the bays are found large quantities of shellfish, principally cockles and razor-fish or spouts.
1912 J. P. Reid Skipper's Daughters 14 A great assortment of shell-fish—cockles, mussels, whelks, spouts, spoutmothers and partens.
1960 Orkney Press & Jrnl. 5 Feb. Fried or stewed in milk, ‘spoots’ are regarded as a delicacy by Island folk.
1995 Orcadian 20 Apr. 16 The low tides around the middle of the month have..[produced] plenty of ‘Spoots’ at Kettletoft.
4. Chiefly Scottish. A syringe; a squirt (squirt n. 2a). Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Shetland, Fife, Ayrshire, and Wigtownshire in 1971.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > syringe
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spout1543
scooter1829
rheometer1919
1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. §§.ii/1 Syrynges. Syryngx signifyeth a pype or spoute.
1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. e.iiij Wasshe the sore wyth a fyne pece of sylke or dryue it in wyth a spoute called of the surgions a syrynge.
1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentijdt Relig. Philosopher II. xvii. 408 Those who are ignorant of it, may consider the Spout or Syringe..as a Barrel of a Pump standing in the Water.
1853 G. Johnston Bot. E. Borders 86 The stems [of the cowkeek] furnish the mischief-loving schoolboy with his ‘spout’ or water gun.
5. The blowhole of a whale or other cetacean; = spout hole n. 1.Cf. sense 10d.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > parts of > blow-hole
spout hole1634
spout1646
blowhole1787
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xix. 154 Like cetaceous animals and Whales, the Lamprey hath a fistula spout or pipe at the back part of the head. View more context for this quotation
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 197 They have..sharp and little teeth: great eyes. A spout betwixt the eyes.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. 38 He squirts the water out at his Nostrils, in the same manner as the Dolphin doth at his Spout.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 174/2 His spouts are in his forehead, and not on the hinder part of his head, as in other whales.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 217 The cachalot..with a spout in the neck; that with a spout in the snout.
1846 J. Richardson & J. E. Gray Zool. Voy. H.M.S. Erebus & Terror I. 13 The artist had placed the spout on the hinder part of the head.
1989 P. Lewis Comic Effects 150 He fails..to understand the composition of the misty jet rising from the whale's spout or the significance of the hieroglyphics on the whale's forehead.
2000 Reading Teacher 53 420/2 A cartoonish whale with water coming out of its spout.
6. A lift or shaft in a pawnbroker's shop used to convey pawned goods between the shop on the ground floor and the storage rooms on upper floors of the building. Also in extended use: a pawnshop. Now historical and rare. Cf. flue n.3 4.Attested earliest in up the spout at Phrases 2.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop
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pop-shop1772
spout1819
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dolly-shop1851
pawn1868
hock-shop1871
poverty shop1948
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop > lift in
spout1819
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To pledge any property at a pawnbroker's is termed..shoving it up the spout.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 345 To the spout with the sneezers in grand array.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 454 ‘You have forgotten your coat,’ said Mr Pickwick... ‘Spout—dear relation—uncle Tom—couldn't help it—must eat, you know.’
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 108 Instead of many pawnbrokers' shops there is one large municipal spout.
1889 Truth 11 July 90/3 And the stud that I bother'd about I found again in a pawnbroker's ‘spout’.
1999 L. Calder Financing Amer. Dream i. 44 After the transaction was completed, clerks placed the pawn into a dumbwaiter that transported it ‘up the spout’.
7. Coal Mining. English regional. An opening or short passage excavated for ventilation between a working area and an air-head. Cf. spout hole n. 4. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > other passages
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1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 368/2 Lateral opening, named spouts, are made from the air-head mine into the side of work, and the circulating current mixed with the gas in the workings enters by the spouts..and returns by the air head..to the upcast pit.
1847 B. Gibbons On Ventilation Mines 7 It is necessary to drive Spouts or openings from the Gate road upwards into the Air head at intervals of each Ten or Fifteen yards..to carry off the Gas and produce a current of air for the Workmen.
1893 J. Milne Miner's Handbk. 183 In the Staffordshire coal districts it is sometimes customary for ventilative purposes to drive a small drift or air head above a main level. With this it is connected by vertical openings called spouts.
2004 B. Lawton Early Hist. Mech. Engin. II. xvii. 845 Even a spout of 10 cm diameter is sufficient to clear gas from the work face, but normally the spout is large enough to pass a man and about 6 m long in the 10 m coal seam.
8. In certain varieties of pigeon: an abnormal fold or fissure of the lower eyelid through which fluid is discharged from the eye.
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1868 W. G. Tegetmeier Pigeons 186 Sore Eyes (Conjunctivitis) is particularly common in carriers and barbs, owing to the great development of wattle around the eye and the tendency that old birds have to the formation of spouts by the turning out of the lower lid.
1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 231 Spouts..consist of a folded corner in the lower eyelid, through which there is a constant gradual drain of fluid.
1919 E. J. W. Dietz Pigeon Dis. x. 70 As soon as observed these spouts should be nipped off.
1982 Homing World Stud Bk. 14 To cure ‘spouts’ effectively surgical treatment is generally necessary.
9. slang. The barrel of a gun. Frequently in up (also in, into) the spout: (of a bullet or cartridge) in (or into) the barrel and ready to be fired. In quot. 1879: a gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adverb] > loaded
spout1879
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel
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1879 J. Guthrie Poems 59 Some o' the spouts, though nae weel used.
1932 F. Carty Irish Volunteer xii. 96 Rifle bolts clattered. They ‘put one up the spout’.
1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain xi. 128 The pin failed to fire the dud cartridge in the chamber. There was no time to pump another into the spout.
1976 G. Seymour Glory Boys xv. 191 The Uzi was concealed there. Wonder if he's put the catch off, thought Jimmy, put one up the spout.
1989 K. Smith Inside Time viii. 57 He describes his instructor pointing his weapon at gas cylinders in the house, forgetting he had bullets in the spout.
2008 R. Krott Save Last Bullet for Yourself iv. 96 I..checked the chamber to make sure there was a round up the spout.
II. A sudden or copious emission; an effusion.† 13. Spouting power or force. Obsolete. rare.
10.
a. A stream or jet of liquid, typically emitted from a narrow opening; a spurt of water, blood, etc.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [noun] > a jet
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > in a jet > a jet
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a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 He maid a hundreth nolt all hawkit Beneth him with a spowt.
1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood ii. xxiv. f. 291v A high piller of stone, out of the which, there came foorthe a spoute of very faire and cleere water.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 153 With the turning of a cocke, spoutes of water rise up in great force.
1649 Famous Trag. King Charles I iv. 39 Oh! my bloud drils like to some prodigall spout which Huswifes set a tilt to cleanse their linnen.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 343 Marble Fountains in the lower part of the room which throws up several spouts of Water.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §317 (note) This momentary Spout of the Edystone may perhaps be best compared with the momentary jet of boiling water..from the Fountain Geisser in Iceland!
1819 J. Keats Chorus of Faries 4 in Let. 21 Apr. (1958) II. clix. 99 To the..torrid spouts fountains, Underneath earth quaked mountains.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1044 The most usual form is a simple opening to throw the jet or spout upright.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. ix. 164 The red spout [of blood] gushed forth; and the victim fell forward.
1933 Lockhart (Texas) Post-Reg. 16 Nov. The drill was out and a muddy spout of water struck the sand three feet away from the wall.
2004 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 2 June 16 Blood was pumping out in spouts and I was covered in it.
2009 New Courier (Athens & Limestone County, Alabama) 4 June 1 (caption) Gianna..runs through a spout of water.
b. In extended use: an emission of something other than liquid; a spurt.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission
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1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 124/2 The volatile phosphorus continues two hours; after which the little spout of light contracts to the length of a line or two.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. xxxiv. 236 From each loop-hole flashing light, A spout of fire shines ruddy bright.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 133 Vesuvius went off... At first it was just a..row, and a spout of fire.
1942 K. Fearing Clark Gifford's Body xxv. 213 We could see only two other trucks, and a spout of dirt and dust fanning out and settling back to earth where the last one had been.
1989 M. Norman These Good Men iii. 96 He lit a cigarette and looked out the window... A pause, a drag, a spout of smoke.
2005 C. Stewart Fourth War 278 The explosion shattered the dim light as a spout of flame emitted from the short barrel.
2009 D. B. Floyd Shadows of Krandom 79 The bull turns its head and snorts out a spout of hot musky air.
c. A spring of water naturally issuing in a constant stream from an opening in the ground.
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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun]
welleOE
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seep1824
1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 58 We have no spouts or springs breaking out.
1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 442 The land abounds with boggs and springs, or what husbandmen call spouts.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 414 The benefit arising from draining, whether by carrying away surface-water, or freeing the land from spouts, occasioned by water bursting out from higher grounds.
1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. (ed. 2) 96 When wetness is caused by spouts or springs, rising from below, the object is to prevent the water rising to or saturating the soil.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 505 4-feet drains have completely removed the spouts.
1906 Surveyor 7 Feb. 171/1 Water is supplied from a number of wells, springs and roadside spouts.
1922 Farm Jrnl. Nov. 83/1 An ever-flowing spout may be made to furnish a watering place for the stock by leading to a tank.
1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 49 We went up to what we called the spout, off the road, it was a spring, lovely mountain water.
d. The column of spray thrown into the air by a whale or other cetacean, expelled forcibly from the blowhole in the act of respiration and consisting chiefly of stale air and steam.Cf. sense 5. The shape of the spout can be distinctive to particular types of whale and may be used to aid identification.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > spouting whale > spout of water
spout1823
blowa1851
1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. xvii. 230 'Tis a right whale,..I saw his spout.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 42 From the extremity of the nose the spout is thrown up.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 98 Its spout..flashes up from the ocean just like smoke.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xviii. 217 We flew after a retreating spout to leeward.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 10/3 The pilot would not assert that he had ever seen water from a whale's spout fall back into the sea.
1990 H. Thurston Tidal Life 134/3 This was subsequently identified as a right whale by its..V-shaped spout, absence of dorsal fin, [etc.].
2002 Wanderlust Feb. 95/1 Everyone, myself included, ran like mad to scan the horizon for the spout.
11. † b. A cascade of earth or rock. Obsolete. rare.
a. A flow or rush of water falling from a higher to a lower level, esp. in a free-falling stream; a waterfall, cataract, or cascade of this kind.
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the world > the earth > water > waterfall > [noun]
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water wall1847
1534 in J. H. Ramsay Bamff Charters (1915) 65 The quhilk entries of the burn betwixt Ardorny and Little Bamff is callit the Spout of Bamff.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xj. f. 137v He commeth too the spring: and then his head too put Full vnderneathe the foming spowt where greatest was the gut.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 110 Before this Grotto is a long poole into which run divers spouts of Water.
1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 29 Coming to a ledge of rocks, which runs..cross the river, it divides into two spouts... The spout on the Virginian side makes three falls.
1795 Edinb. Mag. Sept. 239/1 The Spout of Ballagan, which is the source of the water of Blane, came down from the hills with the most dreadful rapidity.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 388 The river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract.
1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 126 A streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve me for a water-tap.
1958 Washington Post & Times Herald 2 June b1 Fencing has been installed to keep sightseers away from the treacherous ‘Spout’ at Great Falls.
2012 R. M. Liebenow Mountains of Light 110 Although Yosemite is the fifth tallest waterfall in the world, the lack of rain..has reduced it to a mere spout.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus
shot-heuch1574
slide1664
scree1813
shot-brae1822
earthslide1829
talus1830
slip1838
rockslide1845
earthslip1859
landslip1872
spout1883
shingle-slip1900
slump1905
stone stripe1934
shingle slide1944
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 234 The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xv. 118 From the side of the hill..a spout of gravel was dislodged.
12.
a. A sudden heavy downpour (of rain); a cloudburst. Frequently in plural. Cf. waterspout n. 3a. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
floodc1275
spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
squata1640
downpouring1669
deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
1554 G. Makeson Genesis 3 in Innes Rev. (1966) 17 12 The heythest montanis wyth vattyrs war ourgaen ye ark fleytand vpone ye wawis imersing ye spowttis of hewin var all at tanis owtran.
1648 B. Plantagenet Descr. New Albion Pref. 3 The storm grew far more tempestuous with..terrible gusts and spouts, that made the rivers rise, and my friends to hide.
1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 68 Of great Spouts of Rain..that set the whole Countrey in a Flood.
1701 M. Pix Double Distress v. 57 Winds snatch me quickly, Wrap me in Clouds where Storms in Spouts descend.
1790 W. Beckford Descr. Acct. Jamaica I. 74 The rain descends in spouts.
1846 Magnet 6 July 7/2 A dreadful and sudden spout of rain fell, like an avalanche, on a mountain between Ravendale and Dunsdale.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xviii. 297 The rain fell, not in drops, but..in ‘spouts’.
1939 K. Clark Leonardo Da Vinci ix. 172 A mountain undermined by gigantic spouts of rain falling on a town.
1970 W. Humphrey Spawning Run 31 The rain was coming down in spouts.
b. Meteorology. A waterspout (waterspout n. 3b); (occasionally) a sand-spout. Now rare.Common in 17th and 18th centuries. The sense in quot. 1819 at sense 10a is not clear; cf. sense 10c.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > water-spout or sea-storm
water pipe1539
cataract1555
spout1555
hurricano1608
waterspout1625
whirlwater1626
whirl-spout1737
vortex1769
typhon1774
whirl-pillar1850
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 357v They sawe certeyne stremes of water which they caule spoutes faulynge owt of the ayer into the sea.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. diiijv He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 174 The dreadfull spout Which Shipmen do the hurricano call. View more context for this quotation
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 90 There we saw two of those pillars of water that arise out of the Sea, and which are commonly call'd Spouts.
1720 Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 1097 A vast breach in the Ground, which was made by a Spout, which fell upon Emott-more.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Water-spout The whirlwinds and spouts are not always..in the day-time.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 382/2 Some spouts disappear almost as soon as they are formed, and others have been known to continue nearly an hour.
1978 Times 19 June 5/6 All of a sudden you could see the spout up in the sky.
2013 L. Sandlin Storm Kings ii. 19 They weren't impressed with his theory of spouts generally.
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the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > water-power > spouting power or force
spouta1774
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 405 Thus at b, the water had no spout for want of height to drive it; at c, the water hath no spout for want of room to descend.
14. Scottish (now chiefly Shetland). A sudden dart or bound; a spurt of movement. Cf. spout v. 5.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart
startc1330
gird1545
whip1550
shoota1596
whippeta1603
snap1631
jet1647
flirt1666
whid1719
dart1721
spout1787
with a thrash1870
sprit1880
divea1897
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 355 If, in their random, wanton spouts, They near the margin stray;..They're left..In gasping death to wallow.
1901 R. Buchanan Poems 182 Tam made a spoot to get in below the bed.
1928 Shetland Times 7 Jan. Da kar juist made wan spoot laek a mad horse.
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. 82/2 Da dug made wan spoot for da door an wis gone.
15. An outpouring of words, emotion, etc. Cf. spouting n.1 3.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > an act of or recital
sayingc1390
recital1567
recitation1618
spout1832
recite1885
1832 T. Hood in Forget me Not 221 If one should just break out, Perchance, into a little spout, A stick about the skull is.
1999 E. H. Friedman Failure of Nerve (2007) ii. 87 A spout of four letter words came streaming from an actor's mouth.
2015 Sun (Nexis) 5 Feb. This gym freak sparked questions over what else he was digesting in his protein shakes after his spout of rage.
Phrases
P1. colloquial (originally and chiefly English regional (Berkshire)) in great (also good) spout: in high spirits. Now rare.
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1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) He is in great spout, he is in high spirits.
1867 J. L. Peyton Amer. Crisis I. vii. 183 They [sc. people in Berkshire] invariably..for in good spirits, [say] ‘in good spout’.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (1961) 815/2 Spout, in great, in high spirits, noisy.
P2. slang or colloquial. up the spout.
a. Pawned, pledged; in pawn; frequently in to put up the spout. See sense 6. Now historical and rare.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] > in a hopeless condition
up the spout1819
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > beyond hope [phrase]
out of (all) curec1374
past praying for1509
up the spout1819
not to have got a prayer1924
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn
to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384
to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384
engage1525
pawn1570
to lay (up) in lavender1584
impawn1598
oppignorate1622
pignorate1623
dip1640
to put to lumber1671
vamp1699
pop1731
sweatc1800
spout1811
lumber1819
up the spout1819
hock1878
soak1882
to put away1887
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to pawnbroking > pawned
pledged1552
pawned1567
pawn-laid1598
pignorate1674
up the spout1819
pignorated1842
1819Shoving it up the spout [see sense 6].
1819 Theatre 13 Mar. 62/2 We can't take it in, Nor put it up the spout; But we will give you six-pence freely, If you'll take it every morsel out.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 260 Please to put that up the spout, ma'am, with my pins, and rings, and watch and chain, and things.
1886 D. C. Murray Cynic Fortune vii I haven't a suit of clothes fit to go in; even my wig and gown are up the spout together.
1935 G. Heyer Death in Stocks xiii. 165 If I started to put your shirts up the spout you'd have a perfect right to complain.
1999 L. Calder Financing Amer. Dream 43 Her table, her two beds, all her chairs..were hauled down to the pawnshop and ‘put up the spout’.
b. figurative and in extended use: in a hopeless condition; damaged beyond repair; lost; ruined.Originally often with reference to financial difficulty or ruin.
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1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) ‘Tom is up the spout’—he is imprisoned,—at the hospital,—or otherwise reduced in life.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 351 At the expiration of thirty-five minutes, and seventeen rounds, the flue faker acknowledged he was ‘up the spout’.
1853 M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 35 The fact is, Germany is up the spout, and consequently a damper is thrown over my hopes for next summer.
1938 Washington Post 25 Nov. x. 21 Hopes of a favored John Marshall eleven to win its first..football title went up the spout.
1945 V. S. Pritchett It may never Happen 70 But for your wonderful uncle, Vernon, we should be in Queer Street, up the spout.
1994 BBC Top Gear Mag. Aug. 100/2 Check that the engine idles cleanly, otherwise the engine management system could be up the spout.
2015 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 8 May 17 That's UKIP's immigration policy up the spout, I thought.
c. Pregnant. Also: in the womb. to put (also get) (a woman) up the spout and variants: to make (a woman) pregnant, esp. out of wedlock.Cf. up the duff at duff n.7, up the pole at pole n.1 Phrases 1, up the stick at stick n.1 Phrases 21.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective]
greatc1175
with childc1175
with childc1300
baggeda1400
bounda1400
pregnant?a1425
quicka1450
greaterc1480
heavyc1480
teeming1530
great-bellied1533
big1535
boundenc1540
impregnate1540
great-wombeda1550
young with child1566
gravid1598
pregnate1598
pagled1599
enceinte1602
child-great1605
conceived1637
big-bellieda1646
brooding1667
in the (also a) family way1688
in the (also that) way1741
undelivered1799
ensient1818
enwombeda1822
in a delicate condition1827
gestant1851
in pod1890
up the (also a) pole1918
in a particular condition1922
preg?1927
in the spud line1937
up the spout1937
preggy1938
up the stick1941
preggers1942
in pig1945
primigravid1949
preggo1951
in a certain condition1958
gestating1961
up the creek1961
in the (pudding) cluba1966
gravidated-
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 815/2 Spout, up the,..pregnant with child... Often in form, to have been put up the spout.
1949 Landfall 3 234 Well, they say he put her up the spout.
1956 P. Scott Male Child ii. i. 95 All these years taking every possible care and suddenly there's one up the spout.
1970 ‘S. Troy’ Blind Man's Garden viii. 100 Up the spout, isn't she? I thought Michel would have had more bloody savvy.
1994 J. Mahjoub Wings of Dust ix. 113 There's another thing you should know about her... She's got one up the spout thanks to your respectable friend.
2010 M. Dolan Wishing & Hoping 28 Did you know that I knew your mother? That was before Victor got her up the spout with you, of course.
Compounds
C1. attributive. Designating a jug or other vessel with a spout, as spout pitcher, spout pot, spout vase, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > pouring vessel > [noun]
pouring vessel1535
spout pot1598
pourie1787
pourer1828
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > pouring vessel > [noun] > pitcher > specific types
spout pitcher1648
baluster pitcher1938
1598 in T. Stretton Marital Litigation Court of Requests (2008) 160 Sundry sortes of pewter, as platters, dishes, porrengers, sawcers, spowt potts, drinking potts, chamber potts.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 590 Vessels to powre in wine with, like vnto our spout pots.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Bespruyt-kruycke, a Sprinkling, or a Spout-picher for gardens.
1825 H. Owen & J. B. Blakeway Hist. Shrewsbury II. 237 (note) John Pryce, of the Pheasant, vintner, gave to the use of the church one large flaggon pot of pewter, and a fair spout pot.
1896 J. E. Quibell Ballas 26/1 A plain triple and double vase.., and a spout vase..are all of coarse brown ware.
1929 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 49 ii. 160 [A] grave that included among the 400 odd items of its furniture..a little spout vase.
1994 G. Vecchione 100 Make-it-yourself Sci. Fair Projects (2005) 85/1 Smooth the cut edge of the spout bottle with sandpaper.
2009 J. S. Elmore Amateur Amer. 107 A few hours later I was having Bruno refill the tall five-liter spout pitcher of beer, which we called le giraffe.
C2. † spout coals n. Obsolete rare coals loaded from a spout (cf. spouter n. 4).† spout-kind n. Obsolete rare a type or species of whale that spouts; such whales collectively.In quot. perhaps referring specifically to the North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis. Cf. spouter n. 2a.† spout-pen n. Obsolete rare a conch shell of the genus Strombus or a related genus.† spout-road n. Coal Mining Obsolete a subsidiary passage made for the removal of material, esp. down a slope (cf. spout hole n. 4).† spout vessel n. Obsolete a ship or barge that can be loaded with coal by means of a spout (cf. spouter n. 4).† spout-well n. Scottish Obsolete a well with a spout for discharging water; (also) a well fed by a spout or spring.† spout whale n. [compare Dutch regional (Flanders) †spuyt-wal] Scottish Obsolete the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.
spout bath n. a powerful cascade or falling stream of water used as a shower, esp. one of mineral water at a spa; (in later use also) a type of shower or showerhead that allows water to cascade in the manner of a waterfall.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > douche
douche1739
spout bath1824
Scotch douche1839
1824 Torch Light & Public Advertiser (Hagers-Town, Maryland) 21 Sept. Mr Bull, a militia major of some celebrity, was so alarmed that he perspired as if he had just come out of the spout bath.
1833 Let. 7 Aug. in W. Burke Mineral Springs W. Virginia (1842) 82 On the 9th of July we reached the Hot Springs, and on the 10th he commenced with the baths, taking the Spout bath one day and the Sweat bath the next.
1850 J. Bell Treat. Baths xiii. 157 The douche, or spout bath..consists in the application of water..through a small canal or pipe, falling from some height, or projected with some force on the skin.
1929 C. C. Martindale Risen Sun 164 There are things in New Zealand that they call ‘spout-baths’. A solid shining stream thuds on to your back from a height, and you feel as strong as it does.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 20/11 (advt.) Rotorua Boulevard Motel, New units, sleep 1–6, restaurant adj, TV, putting green, hot swimming pool, 6 private spa and spout baths.
1999 Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Admin. Q. Aug. 70 The Spout Bath is a mineral-water cascade that acts as a massage directed at any tight or sore muscles..that guests have been enjoying at The Homestead for over a century.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
coal1253
sea-coal1253
pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
peacock coal1686
rough coal1686
white coal1686
heathen-coalc1697
coal-stone1708
round1708
stone-coal1708
bench-coal1712
slipper coal1712
black coal1713
culm1742
rock coal1750
board coal1761
Bovey coal1761
house coal1784
mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
lignite1808
Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
spout coals1821
spouter1821
Wallsend1821
brown coal1833
paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
Coalite1906
clarain1919
durain1919
vitrain1919
single1921
kolm1930
hards1956
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 5 Certificates..whereby he may see which are spout or keel coals.
spout cup n. (a) a cup with a spout; (in later use) esp. a child's drinking cup; †(b) the upper end of a drainpipe (obsolete rare).
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes
gripe's egg1391
gripe-shell15..
Priapus1613
man with the beard1631
delphin1638
belly-cup1673
spout cup1702
leaf cup1716
image mug1788
rhyton1820
toby1841
Sussex pig1846
bell-cupa1849
biberon1853
moustache cup1863
trembleuse cup1869
steeple-cup1909
thistle cup1947
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > spout > part of
spout cup1864
1702 London Gaz. No. 3806/8 An old fashioned Spout Cup mark'd E.L.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 11 A starling built its nest in one of the spout-cups to the eaves-gutters of our house.
1956 G. Taylor Silver iv. 80 Spout Cups. Found also in faience, they are no more than a tankard or two-handled cup..ending in a curved spout.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 Sept. d2 Other tips include..taking along spout cups or straws, bibs and wet clothes for toddlers.
2005 C. Fallows & K. Kingham Baby & Toddler Food 9 Giving a child a spout cup or a bottle to carry around..is not a good idea.
spout-fish n. now rare a bivalve mollusc which squirts out water; esp. (chiefly Scottish) a razor shell (= sense 3).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
razorc1311
spout1525
spout-fish1594
razor-fish1602
sheath-fish1602
hagfish1611
pitot1611
solen1661
sheath shell1712
sheatha1717
razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1594 W. Fowler True Reportarie Baptisme Prince of Scotl. sig. Dv Lampets, Partans, Lapstars, Crabs, Spout-fish.
1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 93 On the sands of Luce, they get abundance of the long-shell'd fish, call'd the spout-fish.
1895 Standard Dict. Spout-fish, a bivalve that squirts water from its siphons, as the soft clam.
1968 N. F. McMillan Brit. Shells 94 The next family (Solenidae) contains the razorfish or spoutfish, esteemed as food.
spout head n. (a) the end or part of a spout from which liquid issues, esp. when detachable; spec. the rose of a watering can or a sprinkler attachment for a hose; (b) the source of a spring (obsolete).
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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun]
welleOE
walma897
spring?1316
spring wellc1340
water springc1450
source1477
fountain1490
quick-spring1530
eye1535
fountainhead1585
fount1594
springlet1661
keld1697
urn1726
spout head1733
spout1778
seep1824
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > watering apparatus
watering pot1448
water-pot1530
garden pot1548
watering can1685
watering pan1702
spout head1733
garden engine1744
chantepleure1842
waterer1884
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 359 Pouring it through the streaming Holes of the spout Head.
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVI. v. 122 At Blaressen Spout-head, if we believe tradition, a bloody battle was fought between the Romans and Scots.
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 57 As if, athirst with so much toil, 'twould sip The crystal spout-head.
1896 Iron Age 16 Apr. 954/2 The spout head..can be readily removed to get at the bushing.
1918 E. M. Darlington Radcliffes of Leigh Lancs. 19 On the spout head at the back of the house was another inscription.
2006 J. Farris 10-Minute Home Repairs 126 Unscrew the spout head from the hose and check the rubber washers.
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1699 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 318 A whale which was 56. foote long: such, & a larger, & of the spout kind was kill'd there..40 yeares after.
spout mouth n. (a) the opening of a spout (in various senses); Coal Mining †the opening of a spout-road (obsolete); (b) a mouth formed into or shaped like the spout of a jug or other vessel.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of
tutel?c1225
oven mouthc1425
plaice-moutha1569
pouch-mouth?1570
flop-mouth1604
flap-mouth1631
out-mouth1668
flounder-mouth1672
sparrow-mouth1673
splay-mouth1693
smoke-holea1704
screw mouth1707
spout mouth1736
beak-mouth1921
satchel-mouth1933
motormouth1976
1736 J. M'Ure View City of Glasgow 155 Spout-mouth Wynd.
1838 T. Carlyle Let. 12 Apr. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) X. 66 Radical Grote... A man with strait upper lip, large chin and open mouth (spout mouth).
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 63 Spout-mouth, a place on a level road where the material from a spout road is filled into the hutches.
1999 Working Mother Nov. 60 (caption) A playful pitcher with a spout mouth plus a pair of squishable fish.
2009 C. Coppa Rattled! 293 Jack makes the spout mouth and his eyes smile.
spout-mouthed adj. rare having a mouth or opening shaped like or functioning as a spout.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > types of
round-mouthed?1473
shevel?1507
tut-mouthed?a1513
wry-mouthed1552
pouch-mouth1565
plaice-moutha1569
out-lipped1570
pouch-mouthed?a1592
flap-mouthed1594
wide-mouthed1594
plaice-mouthed1595
big-mouthed1602
sparrow-mouthed1611
stretch-moutheda1616
splay-mouthed1647
wry-mouth1652
whale-mouthed1656
out-mouthed1698
spout-mouthed?1711
mickle-mouthed1720
sheveling-gabbit1725
mickle-mouth1863
tenible1871
primped1935
?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 61 Spout-mouth'd Condore Button-shell.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. xiv. 266 We have..our spout-mouthed young man, our eminently silly woman.
1936 T. Niwa Chrysanthemums of Japan 7 According as it [sc. the quilled petal] is open or closed at the tip, it is called respectively the Pipe Quill or the Closed Quill..; the petals of the former kind bearing further the names of Spout-mouthed Quill,..etc., according to the formation of the opening.
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1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 3/2 Strombus tuberosus..Knobbed Spout-pen.
spout plane n. now chiefly historical a woodworking plane with a curved convex sole for working concave surfaces; a round plane, a gutter plane.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for curved surfaces
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hollow-plane1678
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compass-plane1849
spout plane1855
concave-plane1874
hoop-shave1885
1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 369/1 The spout-plane (a moulding plane the under surface of which is convex and cylindrical).
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2288/2 Spout-plane, a round-soled plane used in hollowing out stuff for spouting and troughs.
2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 149/1 Spout plane..For hollowing out spouting and eaves troughs.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage
gate1747
road1770
gangway1778
gateway1786
bolt-hole1839
trumpeting1839
travelling road1851
slope1863
spout-road1882
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Spout-road, same as Cungit [= ‘a road in a mine driven out of the main road for the convenience of drawing the coals’].
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 63 Spout-road,..a road so steep that the mineral slides down of itself to a level.
spout shell n. now rare a pelican's foot shell (genus Aporrhais), which has an expanded outer lip; (formerly also) a razor shell; = sense 3.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
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razor shell1752
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sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 769/2 A dimple in the sand points out the situation of the Solen or Spout-shell.
1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 198 Family Aporrhaidæ. (Spout Shells.)
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 209 The genus Aporrhais, or the ‘Spout-shell’, is a shell with an elongated spire.
1903 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore xii. 245 The enormously expanded lip..has earned for it the popular name of Spout Shell.
1950 W. Goldring Handbk. Paleontol. for Beginners & Amateurs (N. Y. State Museum Handbk.No. 9) (rev. ed.) I. 155 Of the marine forms, Turritella (Screw or Tower Shells) and Natica (Moon Shells) are known from the Triassic; Aporrhais (Spout Shells)..and Melania (Dark Turret Shells), from the Jurassic.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying coal
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coal barge1720
colliery1722
coal-smack1747
spout vessel1821
Geordie1849
collier-brig1853
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 3 This is the reason why a spout vessel is preferred to a keel ship.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well
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wellOE
pitOE
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dip-well1894
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1710 Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1872) 516 Passing from the hie street to the spout walls.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 118 The spring of water..has been diverted into tiles, and forms a spout-well.
1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick 59 There's no' muckle wrang wi' that [ale], unless mebbe the bung-hole's been raither near the spoot-well whiles.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > spouting whale
spouter1587
spout whalea1688
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 14 Many Spout Whales or Pellacks..sometime run in great numbers upon the shore and are taken.
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland iv. 48 There are likewise a great number of little Whales,..which they call spout-Whales or Pellacks.
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 290 There were..two purpoises or spout whailes that ran up the River of Ness..where they were killed.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 90 The porpoise..follows the herrings, and is sometimes caught in the turbot nets: as does likewise the spout-whale.
1912 M. T. Daviess Melting of Molly vii. 164 You showed me them pictures of spout whales in a book.
Derivatives
ˈspout-like adj.
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1829 T. Hood May-Day in Gem 1 182 That damsel thrusting out a pair of original pouting lips, still more spout-like, at a rusty ribbon.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. xi. 109 A short open spout-like tube.
1930 A. M. Marshall et al. Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) viii. 122 A spout-like groove runs forwards to the edge of the collar.
2002 G. B. Thomas in K. Etherington Rehabilit. & Counselling vii. 133 The cut end of the small intestine is then brought out onto the abdominal wall via a spout-like opening called a stoma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
spoutv.
/spaʊt/, U.S. /spaʊt/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle
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bedrivel1721
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > by a stream of liquid
spout1575
besprinkle1612
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxx. 10 To spute [L. conspuere] my face they shame not.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 269 The bathing or spowting hir with water, is a meane to make the powder to frette awaye, and consume the Hawkes feathers.
1856 Half-yearly Abstr. Med. Sci. 23 ii. ii. 135 If the head be spouted with cold water, the eye may return to its natural condition.
1873 Aust. Jrnl. Jan. 275/1 After I had been thoroughly spouted from head to foot, he accompanied me back to the head of the stairs, saying..‘Here he is, missus, as fresh as a flower.’
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 135 After draining for a short time, they are passed down shoots to the men at the spouts, where..they are well spouted.
2. † e. intransitive. Of the eyelid of a pigeon: to discharge fluid from the eye (cf. spout n. 8). Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To discharge (water, blood, flames, etc.) forcibly from a narrow opening in a sudden or copious stream. Also with out, up.In quot. c1405 with a person as object, but as part of the material ejected by a whale (cf. quot. 1606 and sense 2d).
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > emit copiously [verb (transitive)] > suddenly or forcibly
spouta1398
sprout1578
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. i. 569 Þis impressioun is iclepid a dragoun spoutynge [L. euomens] fire.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxii If a man is vnder water wiþ oyle in his mouþ and spouteþ out þat oyle [etc.].
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 389 Who kepte Ionas in the fisshes mawe Til he was spowted vp at Nynyuee.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 1097 A condit coold into hit bringe aboute. Make pipis, watir warm inward to spoute.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 416 He consydurd þe depenes of þis pytt, & he saw þer-in ane vglie dragon spowtand fyre.
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xviii. 80 A dragon..Hauynge thre hedes dyuers In fygure Whiche in a bath..Spouted the water.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 99v/1 Let thys decoction be spouted into the wounde..wyth a syrynge.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 44 Sche into the mane sey spoutis out thir v. fludes.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. sig. H2 This shall be a great whale..spouting huge hils of salt-water afore him.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. 6 From the dry stones he can water spout.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 49 She tooke a mouth full of claret and spouted it into the poope of the hollow bird.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 392 In one of these..is an Atlas spouting up the streame to an incredible height.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 248 The Parish Engine spouts excessive Streams, To quench the Blaze.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 264 He observed two large holes or tubes, which he imagines to have been the apertures through which the fish spouted out the water.
1803 Naval Chron. 11 43 Several persons..affirm that they have often observed the Geyser spout up flames and water at the same time.
1835 N. Hawthorne Sketches from Memory in New-Eng. Mag. Dec. 408 It was composed of large logs,..blazing fiercely, spouting showers of sparks into the darkness.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 126 The surge Tosses on high and spouts its foam afar.
1903 Geogr. Jrnl. 22 62 Volcanic craters..spouted out lava.
1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 168 A flame-swallower with his face turned up to the sky, spouting a column of flame from his mouth.
1985 Guardian 14 Jan. 17 Vast snow-suction machines..spout grey snow from giant pipes, looking for all the world like combine harvesters spouting grain at harvest time.
2003 J. Donnelly Northern Light 346 She sucked in a mouthful of water and spouted it out like a fountain.
b. intransitive in same sense, with object implied. Also: to gush with water, blood, etc.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)] > emit
streamc1390
spout?a1425
pour1539
pump1836
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > emit copiously or in a stream
runc1225
streamc1390
spout?a1425
diffude?a1475
pour1539
pump1836
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 20568 Þe stagne it rises and spoutes And strinkels waters alle aboutes.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 8196 When þey [sc. the dragons] hadde longe to-gyder smyten, Spatled, spouted [?a1400 Petyt spouted sperkes], belewed, & byten.
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. Bv Springs doe spoute, whose siluer streams doe gush, Through ribs of rockes.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 2 Blow You caterickes, & Hircanios spout til you haue drencht, The steeples drown'd the cockes. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 67 Is it now at last obscurely drawn forth, only to cure a scratch, and leave the main wound spouting?
1683 Sh— Ghost to Doctor Oats 1 He seem'd like the Emblem of Envy, his Hairs turn'd into Serpents, his Tap into a Pump, spouting with Sulphur and corroded Poison.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 385 His Arm falls spouting on the Dust below.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 15/1 Coverings should be so disposed..that one may not spout upon the other.
1841 J. G. Whittier St. John 80 While the walls of thy castle Yet spouted with flame.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 569 There are some huge allegorical waterworks still, which spout and froth stupendously upon fête-days.
1939 J. H. Jackson Tintypes in Gold 14 A volcano spouted here countless ages ago.
2011 D. S. Carroll Resurrection of Bodies iii. 18 A fountain spouted upward, tumbling back on what was probably a pond of goldfish.
c. transitive. figurative. To emit; to pour out.For figurative uses relating to spouting words and language see sense 4.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit
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casta1300
sheda1325
manda1350
to throw outa1413
yielda1450
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to give out1530
utter1536
spout1568
to give fortha1586
to let fly1590
to put out1614
eject1616
evacuate1622
ejaculate1625
emit1626
fling1637
outsend1647
exert1660
extramit1668
exclude1677
emane1708
extromita1711
evolve1772
emanate1797
discharge1833
exsert1835
to give off1840
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 17 So where thou thoughst to spoute thy spite, thou hast hir brought to blisse.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 Neuer since I spouted incke, was I of woorse aptitude to goe thorow with such a mighty March brewage.
1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence v. ii. sig. K3 And what have you deserv'd then..that have endevour'd To spout the poyson of your black detraction On this immaculate whitenesse?
1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 11 The good man doth not plant his bounty in one small hole, or spout it on one narrow spot.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. v. 141 Each one..laughed, and looked shocked afterwards, or looked shocked, and then spouted laughter.
1972 Oakland (Calif.) Post 20 Dec. 1 The Coliseum Complex is spouting forth champions as it becomes the sports center of Northern California.
2008 M. Johnston Cease Firing xxi. 207 Always the higher grey line was raining fire.., the grey batteries were spouting death.
d. intransitive. Of a whale: to throw up a spout (spout n. 10d) in the act of respiration; to blow.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [verb (intransitive)] > miscellaneous actions of whale
calvec1000
spout1683
blow1726
peak1839
sound1839
fluke1840
mill1840
breach1843
white-water1856
round1881
1683 R. Dixon Canidia ii. x. 43 Where wallow those mighty Whales, Spowting and turning up their Tails?
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 223 When the seamen see a whale spout.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xviii. 169 He sheered off, and spouted at a good distance.
1861 J. G. Holland Lessons in Life x. 139 When the whales ceased spouting, the earth took up the business.
1891 Outing Apr. 17/1 Again the whale spouted and ‘rounded’ to ‘sound.’
?1936 R. Lowell in I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1982) iii. 36 Whales spouted, and their flat tail flopped and towered.
1985 T. C. Boyle Whales Weep in Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985) 105 Darwin watched them spouting and lobtailing.
2004 J. Erdal Ghosting v. 163 The ‘please’ was always expelled with a great whoosh— pah-leeze—like a whale spouting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)]
issuea1616
spout1879
1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 104 There are eye-wattles that develop quickly, as in Carriers, though they are apt to ‘spout’ at a later date.
3.
a. intransitive. Of a liquid or other substance: to flow out forcibly in a sudden or copious stream; to spurt from a narrow opening; to gush.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt or issue in a jet [verb (intransitive)] > with quantity or force
spout?a1513
spout1561
fountain1903
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > violently > in a jet
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 224 I man..lat the vennim ische all out—Be war anone, for it will spout.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 62 Thee goare blood spowteth of eeche syde, And swyms in the thrashold.
1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one iv. sig. G4v One Cup more... Is the Sack spouting?
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors iv. 191 At its breaking out of the Earth it spouts higher than the Sea it self.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 123 If they are deeply wounded in a dozen places, there will instantly gush out as many fountains of blood, spouting to a considerable distance.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 404 It will not spout at all, but drivel down the side of the vessel.
1796 S. Vince Princ. Hydrostat. i. 7 Whether the fluid spouts downwards, horizontally, upwards, or in any other direction.
1874 T. Taylor Leicester Square. xi. 272 A handsome basin..was planned for a jet d'eau, which..never spouted.
1889 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrong Box 29 Morris..pointed to the vomit of steam that still spouted from the broken engines.
1921 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. July 361 A solid cylinder of flame spouted from this opening..extending upward at least 6 feet.
1958 Pop. Sci. Feb. 220/1 As he took out this plug, water spouted high as though under pressure.
1976 A. Brink Instant in Wind (1979) 181 They can see his mouth opening, and blood spouting from a severed jugular vein.
2001 C. Cussler Valhalla Rising 22 Six of the Kearsarge's eight guns roared, their explosive blasts shattering the air as fire and smoke spouted from their muzzles.
2003 Daily Record (Glasgow) 27 Mar. Water spouted from a broken pipe and the walls were charred black.
b. intransitive. With out or up.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt or issue in a jet [verb (intransitive)] > with quantity or force
spout?a1513
spout1561
fountain1903
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > violently > in a jet
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1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) iv. sig. H.viii There a spryng That spouted vp with bubling sandes..I found.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 18 There is a Pipe, that throws up a great deal of Water..with so much force that it spouts up almost as high as the Dome.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 357 Some slash'd their arms with sharp knives, makeing the blood spout out.
1787 Lady's Mag. Apr. 206/2 The water spouts up from the foot of the mountain, with a noise like that of a cannon.
1803 Imison's Elements Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 252 If a hole be made in the side of a vessel, the water will spout out [horizontally].
1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines iii. 35 A ribbon of white surf, which spouts up in pillars of foam.
1907 H. A. Kennedy New Canada & New Canadians 164 A modern steam threshing outfit, with a great stack of wheat going in at one end, and a fountain of grain spouting out at the other.
1995 P. Hart Conscience of Senate ii. 36 The shrapnel missed his bone but severed the main artery in the arm, and blood spouted out.
2011 H. G. Egmont Fairy School Drop-out 8 Water spouted up into the air so strongly that it broke through the roof.
4. figurative.
a. transitive. To utter (words, a speech, etc.) or express (views or ideas) in a lengthy or declamatory way, or without thought or reflection; (also simply) to recite (a passage, quotation, etc.). Also with out.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [verb (transitive)] > declaim
spout1542
declaim1577
perorate1681
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 23v If thei shall spowte raillyng, slaunderous or reprochefull woordes against, vs & no truth in theim it nothyng toucheth vs.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 401 Nouther left thair wod..barbaritie, quhil out tha spoutit it vpon the Carmelitis, dominicanis, and Franciscanis.
a1663 J. Bramhall Vindic. Himself (1672) i. 9 Mr. Baxters happiness is only by turning the Cock to spout out whole Pages in an instant.
1711 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus III. 180 Alas, Sir I 'tis in vain for me to think to please you, could I spout all Helicon at you in blank Verse,..something would still be wanting to complete the Charm.
1771 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 166 Dr. King has been with me this afternoon amusing himself with spouting Shakespeare, Pope, & others.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 327 His skill..In bilking tavern bills, and spouting plays. View more context for this quotation
1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 35 I spouted the speech of Galgacus at the public examination.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 61 One of the better sort of..politicians..spouting out torrents of puddled politics from his mouth.
1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. I. xix. 144 Doing nothing but teach the wife of his lodging-house host to spout tragedy.
1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 57 I heard Macaulay spout the first chapter of Isaiah.
1929 Sat. Rev. 5 Jan. 7/1 Adherents who can be kept only by spouting nonsense to them.
1981 D. Wilcox & E. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit ii. 43 It was obvious that he had just been spouting that kind of garbage at his appointments board.
2004 J. Downs & J. Manion Taking Back Acad. Introd. 1 We spouted out positions we were too shy to take in class.
2011 Daily Tel. 12 July 20/5 There has been a trend of children spouting their rights at teachers, even whilst misbehaving.
b. intransitive. To speak in a lengthy or declamatory way, or without thought or reflection; to speechify; to prattle. Later also in to spout off. In early use also: to dispute; cf. spute v. N.E.D. (1914) says of quot. 1556 that 'spout is used by uneducated people in place of spute or dispute.'With punning reference to urination in quot. 1734.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > harangue or declaim
spout1556
harangue1660
declaim1735
bloviate1845
to bust (a person's) balls1946
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > ramble or waffle
blether1524
spout1556
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1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxix. sig. Iiv I forbad here: all spouting in souostrie.
1619 Two Wise Men & All Rest Fooles ii. iii. 24 It set um all on such a froth with spouting one against the tother, that some of the slauer lighted on my face.
1734 Rap at Rapsody 4 Spout then, my Muse! and spouting boast, The doughty Dean's thy Pissing-Post.
1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 36 A paltry, scribbling fool—to leave me out—He'll say perhaps—he thought I could not spout.
1787 F. Burney Diary 15 Aug. (1842) III. 427 He began to spout, and act, and rattle away, with all his might.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xv. 41 What are you at now?..spouting to yourself, like a mad stroller.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iv. 229 The far-sounding Street-orators cease, or spout milder.
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 25 A practical man, spouting in the House about our national obligations to liberty.
1898 Pike County (Petersburg, Indiana) Democrat 14 Oct. The Press..has spouted off a great deal on several occasions, but lately has been extremely quiet.
1909 Railroad Telegrapher Aug. 1296/1 He would spout upon the corner and he'd spout within the hall, And he spouted in the barroom till he made the ceiling fall.
1926 Evening Huronite (S. Dakota) 21 Oct. 6/1 There were only two kinds up there in the stands... Those who had spouted off about how the team was sure to lose, and those who had spouted off about how the team was sure to win.
1974 Presidential Campaign Activities 1972: Hearings before U.S. Senate Select Com. 93rd Congr., 2nd Session XVI. 7148 I spouted off more to Don Paarlberg than anybody else in the Department because Don was, and is, a great distinguished economist.
2009 A. Baime Go Like Hell 242 The excitement mounted during the final laps... The announcer spouted wildly.
c. transitive. To speak or talk in (a language), esp. fluently.
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a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe iv. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Oo3v/2 And can you these tongues perfectly?.. Pray spout some french.
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving i. i. 7 I'de rather spinne at home, then heare these Barbarians spout Latine.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 44 I hope I am old enough to spout English with you Sir?
1756 Universal Visiter & Memorialist Jan. 24 You will be amazed to hear me spout French, but I assure you it is the language of Tartarus.
1835 Richmond (Indiana) Palladium 15 Aug. Capt. S. John Bassiere..is said to be fascinating in his manner—can spout French and Italian very fluently.
1970 F. Grierson & H. P. Simonson Valley of Shadows xiv. 149 Cutler had been to college in Virginia an' could spout enough Latin to make the justice o' the peace ashamed of his ignorance.
1988 L. Ellmann Sweet Desserts 52 He spouted lovely Italian into the receiver.
2005 F. Fitzpatrick Hot Stuff xii. 103 The night we met in the back of Hot Harry's you were spouting Gaelic like, well, a native.
5. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. To spring or bound; to dart. Cf. spout n. 14. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in Shetland, Caithness, Angus, Stirling, and Wigtownshire in 1971.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)]
leapc900
startOE
reseOE
springa1275
throwc1275
upleapc1275
launch13..
aspringc1315
sault1377
lance?a1400
sprenta1400
loupc1480
lope1483
spang1513
bendc1530
jump1530
spend1533
stend1567
vaulta1568
pract1568
exult1570
bound1593
saltate1623
subsalt1623
jet1635
spoutc1650
volt1753
c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grine (Percy) l. 652 in F. J. Furnivall Percy Folio Old Eng. Ballads & Romances (1905) I. 223 He spowted forward, as he had beene a deere, Till he was passed out of her sight.
1801 J. Thomson Poems Sc. Dial. 83 Frae out a buss a hare did spout.
1892 G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales (ed. 2) 257 I spoots oot da door an' aff I skips.
1905 J. Lumsden Croonings 231 Bricht as a star flaucht, I spoot up on hie.
6. transitive. To fit or furnish with spouts or (in quot. 1741) drainage channels. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > provide with spouts
spout1741
1741 Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (1968) (at cited word) They got not the Levell rightly spouted which in a short time occasion'd the water to be restagned in the West.
1853 Encycl. Brit. II. 268/2 To have the eaves of the whole building spouted.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. 6/3 Why should they not have houses properly built, properly spouted and roofed to keep out the wet.
1941 Timberman June 32/2 If a roof over the buggies or bunks is out of the question, spouting the roof over the chain is a great help.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn
to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384
to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384
engage1525
pawn1570
to lay (up) in lavender1584
impawn1598
oppignorate1622
pignorate1623
dip1640
to put to lumber1671
vamp1699
pop1731
sweatc1800
spout1811
lumber1819
up the spout1819
hock1878
soak1882
to put away1887
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Spouted, pawned.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To pledge any property at a pawnbroker's is termed spouting it.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxii. 221 He wouldn't spout the fenders and fire-irons—he ain't so bad as that.
1884 Sat. Evening Post 23 Aug. 15 ‘Time is money,’ said the seedy man when he spouted his watch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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