What is "spoutings"

Usage examples of "spoutings".

I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in having his spoutings out, as the fishermen phrase it.

Now, why should the whale thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere descending for good?

In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.