SPOUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spouting mean? 

• SPOUTING (adjective)
  The adjective SPOUTING has 1 sense:

1. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

  Familiarity information: SPOUTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOUTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

Synonyms:

jetting; spouting; spurting; squirting

Similar:

running ((of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream)

 Context examples 

Scientists also have been eager to find out if Dione has geologic activity, like Saturn's geyser-spouting moon Enceladus, but at a much lower level.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

I lay upon my face and peered over with the spray spouting up all around me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I noticed blood spouting from Kerfoot’s left hand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She wanted to lean toward this burning, blazing man that was like a volcano spouting forth strength, robustness, and health.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nobody is fonder of the exercise of talent in young people, or promotes it more, than my father, and for anything of the acting, spouting, reciting kind, I think he has always a decided taste.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Beneath and around them blazed the huge fire, roaring and crackling on every side of the bailey, and even as they looked the two corner turrets fell in with a deafening crash, and the whole castle was but a shapeless mass, spouting flames and smoke from every window and embrasure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Leach took it quite calmly, though blood was spouting upon the deck as generously as water from a fountain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Major staggered to his feet, but the blood spouting from his throat reddened the snow in a widening path.

(White Fang, by Jack London)