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waterspout
\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: Middle English water spoute, from water + spoute spout — more at spout
1.
a. : a pipe, duct, or orifice from which water is spouted or through which it is carried (as from a roof gutter to a cistern) — compare downspout
b. : water spouting out from or as if from a waterspout
2. : a slender funnel-shaped or tubular column of rapidly rotating cloud-filled wind usually extending from the underside of a cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud down to a cloud of spray torn up by the whirling winds from the surface of an ocean or lake, being either straight and vertical or inclined and tortuous as it moves along, and consisting largely of water
3. : a torrential burst of rain : rainfall of the nature or intensity of a cloudburst
Synonyms: see wind |