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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Spouting, vbl. n. [17th c. Eng. spouting (Cotgrave); Spout v.] The action of the verb, the discharge (of water). —1657 Glasgow B. Rec. II 366.
The ingyne laitlie made … for the occatioune of suddent fyre, in spouting out of water thairof 1676 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 212.
It was the custom of all provident skippers to have a pump-stelling covered with pitched cenvas, to guard against the spouting of the pump
