Meaning

A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
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.
4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
7. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
8. (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

Example Sentences

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[…]

From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'

Word Forms

• spouts
• spouting
• spouted

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When Should You Use Spout?

Use spout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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