3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a
column; also, a waterspout.
To put, shove, or 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]
Spout"er (?), n. One who, or that which, spouts.
Spout"fish (?), n. (Zoöl.) A marine animal that spouts water; --
applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams
(Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their
holes.
Spout"less, a. Having no spout. Cowper.
Spout"shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus
Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
Sprack (?), a. [Cf. Icel. sprækr sprightly, dial. Sw. spräk, spräg,
spirited, mettlesome; or Gael. spraic vigor.] Quick; lively; alert.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sprad (?), obs. p. p. of Spread. Chaucer.
Sprad"de (?), obs. imp. of Spread. Chaucer.
Sprag (?), n. [Cf. Icel. spraka a small flounder.] (Zoöl.) A young
salmon. [Prov. Eng.]
Sprag, n. [See Spray a branch.] A billet of wood; a piece of timber
used as a prop.
Sprag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spragged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Spragging
(?).] 1. To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by
putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. R. S. Poole.