SPURTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spurting mean? 

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

1. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPURTING (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 

I took off the kettle and blew out the lamp, for the water was spurting over the floor.

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

The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had parried with his great bowie knife, and at first I thought that he too had come through in safety; but as he sprang beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could see that with his left hand he was clutching at his side, and that the blood was spurting through his fingers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the great stone fireplace a log fire was spurting and crackling, throwing out a ruddy glare which, with the four bracket-lamps which stood at each corner of the room, gave a bright and lightsome air to the whole apartment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)