Usually means: Opening through which liquid flows.
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  1. spout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spout: Merriam-Webster
  3. spout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spout, spout: Wordnik
  8. spout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spout: Wiktionary
  10. spout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spout: Dictionary.com
  14. spout (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spout: Rhymezone
  20. spout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spout: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spout: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. spout: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spout: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. spout: Legal dictionary

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  1. spout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPOUT: Acronym Finder
  2. spout: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spout, spout, spout, spout, spout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spout: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Spout: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See spouted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
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:  (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
verb:  (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
verb:  (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
verb:  (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
verb:  (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.

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