spouter

plural spouters

1. Anything that spouts.
2. Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.

   a spouter of hateful rhetoric

3. archaicA whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
4. historicalA vessel used in whaling.

   Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.

   1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270

   Synonyms: whaleboat, whaleship, whaler

   1. historicalrareA person engaged in whaling; a skillful whaler.

      Synonyms: whaleboat, whaleship, whaler