Definition of "spout"

spout

/spaʊt/

noun
plural spouts
1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
2. A stream of liquid.
  Quotations
  A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
  2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood, page 160
3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
4. (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
verb
third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted
1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
2. (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  Quotations
  The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.
  1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale
3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  Quotations
  Pray, spout some French, son.
  c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, Act IV, scene iv
5. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.