n.
   - a projecting tube or lip through or over which liquid can be poured from a container.
- a stream of liquid issuing with great force.
- a pipe, trough, or chute for conveying liquid, grain, etc. ▸historical a lift in a pawnshop used to convey pawned items up for storage. 
v.
  - send out or issue forcibly in a stream.
- express (one's views) in a lengthy or declamatory way.
Phrase
  
    
      - up the spout
 Brit. informal- useless, ruined, or wasted.
- (of a woman) pregnant.
- (of a bullet or cartridge) in the barrel of a gun and ready to be fired.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - spouted adj.
- spouter n.
- spoutless adj.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from MDu. spouten, from an imitative base shared by ON spýta ‘to spit’.