Synonyms for spout

Grammar : Verb

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Phonetic Transcription : spaʊt

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Définition of spout

Origin : early 14c., related to Middle Dutch spoiten "to spout," North Frisian spütji "spout, squirt," Swedish sputa "to spout," and probably Middle Dutch spuwen "to spit" (see spew). Meaning "to talk, declaim" is recorded from 1610s.

verb spurt, emit
verb talk forcefully

Example sentences :

Mallyan's Spout is the most imposing, having a drop of about 76 feet.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home

Its spout was torn and ragged like the mouth of a gun when a shell has burst there.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

Why should it not be "up the spout," instead of in a jewel-box?
Extract from : « The Lightning Conductor Discovers America » by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Just below the lid, and above the spout, was a hole as large as a dime.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

It came out by itself, as the spout of a teapot had once come off by itself in her hand.
Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett

After you pump water up, it flows down into your pail from the spout of the pump.
Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne

Glory of Pat, to spout, to struggle, right Ireland's old wrong!
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 » by Various

When the snow had melted she put the water in a coffee kettle that had a spout.
Extract from : « The Land of the Long Night » by Paul du Chaillu

Then he looked at the pump and he gave it a whack and he kicked at the spout and said "Shucks!"
Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason

I don't see a sign of a' inscription on this—an' what is this paper in the spout?
Extract from : « Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches » by Ruth McEnery Stuart

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