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pour

/poɹ/ noun C2
  1. The act of pouring. · The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.
  2. Something, or an amount, poured.
  3. A downpour; a flood of precipitation. (colloquial)

Plural pours

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He bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 76 · B2
Let us go on,” and Kaa seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with his steady eyes, and keeping to it.
The Jungle Book, p. 47 · B2
And pour the waters of the Nile
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 11 · B2
When I become quite motionless, cold, and rigid as a corpse, then, and not before,—be careful about this,—force open my teeth with the knife, pour from eight to ten drops of the liquor contained in the phial down my throat, and I may perhaps revive.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 178 · C1

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