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spout

/spaʊt/ noun C1
  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. · I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.· I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap
  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.

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.