单词 | spouty |
释义 | ˈspouty, a. [f. spout v.] Given to spouting or discharging water.
1705Earl of Haddington Forest Trees (1765) 6, I..find it thrive in rich, poor, middling, heathy, gravelly, spouty, clay and mossy ground. 1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 62 The place was cover'd with a Scurf of wet spouty Earth about a Foot thick. 1746Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope 139 A Column of them in Disorder were coming along westwards under a ‘spouty’ bank. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 505, I have frequently made lines of drains across the spouty sloping faces of fields. 1892Blackw. Mag. Oct. 472/2 Oak would root itself firmly in the valleys,..alder in swamps and spouty land. |

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