Found 1 hit - Term: to shove up the spout, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
spout \spout\, n. cf. sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. see
spout, v. t.
1. that through which anything spouts; a discharging lip,
pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind
through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is
conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the
spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the
roof of a building. --addison. "a conduit with three
issuing spouts." --shak.
1913 webster
in whales . . . an ejection thereof water is
contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --sir
t. browne.
1913 webster
from silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
--pope.
1913 webster
2. a trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
receptacle.
1913 webster
3. a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
1913 webster
to put up the spout, to shove up the spout, or to pop up
the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in
allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the
ticketed articles. cant
1913 webster
see also:
spout to put up the spout to shove up the spout to pop up the spout
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