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UK
/wˈɔːtəspˌaʊt/
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NOUN
- a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
- a heavy rain
- a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist
How To Use waterspout In A Sentence
- When, for example, the ship comes upon a waterspout the ‘width of a tree trunk,’ Mr. Banks is unimpressed.
- Tornadic thunderstorms can also produce waterspouts and downbursts.
- Waterspouts are basically tornadoes that are over water, and downbursts are violent gusts of winds blowing directly downwards from the storm cloud.
- A colorful waterspout shot from the mouth of the electronic dragon and the children clapped.
- Hard to see in the picture, I know, but that is a waterspout, which is an-above water tornado. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005
- In one corner of the stoop a tin wash-basin stood under a waterspout in the sink; there swung the family towels; the public comb, hanging by its teeth to a nail, had seen much service; a piece of brown soap lay in an _abalone_ shell tacked to the wall; a small mirror reflected kaleidoscopical sections of the face, and made up for its want of compass by multiplying one or another feature. In the Footprints of the Padres
- The drain rib begins with the waterspout of the button leading salient and extends to the back of the control panel.
- Two waterspouts churned their way through Biscayne Bay in the Miami area.
- The river seemed to be whirling upwards into a waterspout, though there was no corresponding cloud-column thrusting down to meet it. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- Waves arose like rolling cliffs and heaving mountains; the writhing column of a waterspout flowed upwards into a connecting arm of cloud. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
