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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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And pour the waters of the Nile
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 11 · 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
He bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 76 · B2
Then he fell back into an armchair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 93 · B2

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