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upspout

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English

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ spout.

Verb

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

  1. (poetic) To spout upward.
    • 1868, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton, New Poems: Chronicles and characters, page 313:
      And swift from underneath upspout / Thick showers of hissing arrows that down-rain / Their rattling drops upon the walls, []