spout
About 0.72 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
- noun A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
- noun A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
- noun A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
- noun A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
- noun A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
- noun The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
- noun A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
Similar words
gush spurt spirt rave mouth off rabbit on jabber rant nozzle jet
Often followed by
of and is to in at or on from
Word family
spouted spouter spouters spouting spouts
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