[spou-ting] 
[spout] | 1. | to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet. |
| 2. | Informal. to state or declaim volubly or in an oratorical manner: He spouted his theories on foreign policy for the better part of the night. |
| 3. | to discharge, as a liquid, in a jet or continuous stream. |
| 4. | to issue forth with force, as liquid or other material through a narrow orifice. |
| 5. | Informal. to talk or speak at some length or in an oratorical manner. |
| 6. | a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed. |
| 7. | a trough or shoot for discharging or conveying grain, flour, etc. |
| 8. | a waterspout. |
| 9. | a continuous stream of liquid, granulated substance, etc., discharged from or as if from a pipe, tube, shoot, etc. |
| 10. | a spring of water. |
| 11. | a downpour or fall, esp. of water, from a high place; waterfall. |
| 12. | a dumbwaiter or chute, formerly common in pawnbrokers' shops, by which articles pawned were sent to another floor for storage. |
| 13. | British Slang. pawnshop. |
| 14. | up the spout, British Slang.
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| gut·ter (gŭt'ər) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English goter, guter, from Old French gotier, from gote, drop, from Latin gutta.] Certain household words have proved important as markers for major U.S. dialect boundaries. The channels along the edge of a roof for carrying away rainwater (normally referred to in the plural) are variously known as eaves troughs or, less commonly, eaves spouts in parts of New England, the Great Lakes states, and, for the former, the West; spouting or rainspouts in eastern Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Peninsula; and gutters from Virginia southward. Along the Atlantic coast, the transition points have marked unusually clear boundaries for the three major dialect areas—Northern, Midland, and Southern—traditionally acknowledged by scholars of American dialects. Nowadays, however, Southern gutters seems to have become the standard U.S. term. According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, gutters has become well established in northern states along the Atlantic coast from Maine to New Jersey; in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri; and as far west as California. See Note at andiron. |
| spout (spout) v. spout·ed, spout·ing, spouts v. intr.
[Middle English spouten, ultimately of imitative origin.] spout'er n. |
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