Crossword clues for spurt
spurt
- Sudden gushing
- Extra effort
- Burst of growth
- Brief effort
- Unexpected growth
- Burst of speed
- Brief spell of energy
- Sudden growth
- Period of rapid growth
- Gush suddenly
- Sudden jet
- Short burst
- Quick increase
- Water from a water fountain
- Sudden stream
- Sudden gush of liquid
- Sudden burst of water
- Short spell of action
- Period of sudden growth
- Period of growth
- Gush out suddenly
- Growth ___
- Finishing kick
- Fast-moving jet
- Burst, as of energy
- Blast in a hot tub
- Jet
- Gush forth
- Burst of energy
- Rush
- Sudden burst of growth
- End of many a race
- Sudden growth spell
- Brief burst
- Short burst of energy
- Good thing to end a close race with
- What might win a race
- The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- Hose's gush
- Water jet
- Shoot forth
- Action at the wire
- Emulate Old Faithful
- Gush; sudden burst
- Little time after incentive to put on a burst of speed
- President's taken over, throwing master off jet
- Jet's prompt, ahead of time
- Sudden outpouring
- Sudden increase
- Sudden outburst
- Burst of activity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spurt \Spurt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurting.] To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
Spurt \Spurt\ (sp[^u]rt), v. i. [Written also spirt, and originally the same word as sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout, AS. spryttan. See Sprit, v. i., Sprout, v. i.] To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock,
Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
--Pope.
Spurt \Spurt\, v. t. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
Spurt \Spurt\, n.
A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
A shoot; a bud. [Obs.]
--Holland.-
Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work.
--Dr. Prior.
Spurt \Spurt\ (sp[^u]rt), n. [Cf. Icel. sprettr a spurt, spring, run, spretta to spirt, spring.] A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
The long, steady sweep of the so-called ``paddle''
tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of
the spurt.
--T. Hughes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to gush out, squirt," 1560s, variant of spirt, perhaps cognate with Middle High German spürzen "to spit," and sprützen "to squirt" (see sprout (v.)). Related: Spurted; spurting. The noun in this sense is attested from 1775.
"brief burst of activity," 1560s, variant of spirt "brief period of time" (1540s), of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow connected with spurt (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. 2 A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space. 3 (context slang English) ejaculation of semen. (rfex) 4 (context obsolete English) A shoot; a bud. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. 2 (context intransitive English) To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. 3 (context intransitive English) To make a strong effort for a short period of time.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Spurt may refer to:
- Secretory protein in upper respiratory tracts, a gene encoding a secretory protein
- Spurt (Dutch Railways), a trade name for certain Dutch Rail routes
Spurt is a trade name used by Arriva Netherlands for certain passenger rail services operated in that country. The services are typically operated by Stadler GTW articulated railcars. The current Arriva fleet includes both 2-car (GTW 2/6) and 3-car (GTW 2/8) variants and both Electric and Diesel powered examples. Eight of the units are equipped for operation through to Leer in Germany.
Usage examples of "spurt".
Most of all I hated the rush of intense aliveness which pumped through me like a drug whenever I speared an innocent animal and I saw the spurting of his blood as drink that would soon quicken my own.
The Winchester kicked against his shoulder, and through the haze of powder smoke that spurted from its muzzle, he saw the ambusher go flying from the back of the horse as if he were a puppet being jerked around by a puppeteer in a giant Punch and Judy show.
The sec men opened fire in a rough volley, the barrage of miniballs tearing into the boy, blood spurting high into the air as one round smacked him right in the heart.
Blood spurted from the wounds, bedrabbling the trampled grasses with hot gore.
He tugged the lanyard on a downward roll a fraction of a second before the French frigate appeared in the crude sight and once again the gun sprang back with a bronchitic cough and a spurt of flame and smoke at the muzzle.
His master had told him to burry, so he dropped the bicycle, climbed behind the wheel of the car, gunned it into life, and spurted gravel in a wide arc as he slid the sports car out of the forecourt into the driveway.
Then a pain suddenly went through my groin, as it sometimes does when micturition is too long withheld, but so intensely hurtfully that, not meaning to, I let at least a brief spurt of urine.
American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.
Grasping the pulsating head of the moster troll cock, she shoved the spurting thing into her mouth, swallowing huge gobs of the stuff as she seemed to cum endlessly.
Training has meant so much vital overplus to me that I long ago spurted and caught up with my pottle of joy.
Ned, when the spurt set in, gave up rouseabout and odd-job work, and took finally to the rivers.
She twisted under his eager thrusts, raking her claws across his back when he spurted his first load of spunk into her slit and upon her scaled belly.
Tiny fountains spurted, then mingled before spilling into the scuppers to drain into the endless cycle of sea and sky.
Derkhan danced and spasmed, agonized yells spurting out from behind her teeth.
Blue lightning bolts sizzled out, along with icewave spurts, but the spiny treeships ignored the searing energy.