spouts

Noun

spout (plural spouts)

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
   • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
2. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
3. A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
   • A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood, page 160
4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
   • […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore.1805, Robert Forsyth, The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each...
5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
   • The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.1883, The Silverado Squatters, Stevenson, section 234
6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
   • He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.2020 [1570], John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara, →ISBN, page 69

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