upspout

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verb

To spout upward.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbupspout (third-person singular simple present upspouts, present participle upspouting, simple past and past participle upspouted)

present singular third person upspouts · participle present upspouting · participle past upspouted · past upspouted

  1. poeticTo spout upward.

    And swift from underneath upspout / Thick showers of hissing arrows that down-rain / Their rattling drops upon the walls, […]

    1868, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton, New Poems: Chronicles and characters, page 313

Origin

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Chicago

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