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spout

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
spaʊt

Definitions

  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
  2. tube or pipe
  3. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
  4. gutter
  5. A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
  6. drain
  7. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
  8. navigation channel
  9. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
  10. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
  11. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
  12. A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
    Australia

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Examples

“I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”
“I put⟳ a spout in the maple tree to collect⟳ its sap”
“A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.”
“[…] 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.”
“The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall⟳ is much rent⟳, and has fallen forward⟳[…]”
“[…] a streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve⟳ me for a water-tap.”
“[…] you can follow⟳ a footpath from the fine Victorian Mallyan Spout Hotel to the national park's most famous waterfalls – the 80ft-high Mallyan Spout. When you get⟳ to the beck, turn⟳ left, and the waterfall is a couple of hundred yards along the bank; it can be wet⟳ underfoot[…]”
“The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.”
“From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'”
“He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

Spouted Spouter spoutfish spouthole spoutiness Spouting

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