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A channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
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waterspout
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist a heavy rain [syn: downpour , cloudburst , deluge , torrent , pelter , soaker ] a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a ...
Wikipedia
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A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel -shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water . They are connected to a towering cumuliform cloud or a cumulonimbus cloud . In the common form, it is a non- supercell tornado over ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waterspout \Wa"ter*spout`\, n. A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. Note: Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A series of white waterspouts soon rose in the harbor. ▪ I notice a waterspout at the horizon, and watch it until it moves out of sight.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a tornado that occurs over a body of water 2 a channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof
Usage examples of waterspout.
On the docks, in full view, a waterspout - a water cyclone - twirled like a very thin top.
Wrapping her mind around those ties, Tris gripped them hard, like reins, and tugged the waterspout until it returned to its original position.
Taking a breath, she let it out and forbade the waterspout to go anywhere.
She let it slip down, her eyes fixed on the waterspout as the thread opened up.
During their brawl, when the waterspout had tried to attack Daja, Tris had clearly been terrified - and had dealt with her creation in spite of her fear, to keep it from hurting the Trader.
He suddenly realized that a waterspout would have had the same effect and was thankful for his earlier silence.
When a waterspout threatened, the growing craft was now simply moored as securely as the supply of rope would permit and allowed to float by itself.
He nodded understanding and returned to the other hull, which offered both a higher viewpoint, since the cabin roof was no place to ride out a waterspout, and was also closer to the object of his attention.
The elemental was about fifty yards off the port bow, shaping itself a waterspout, a moonstruck column of blackness, from the placid surface of the sea.
The boat was beginning to tip and slew sideways in the pull of the waterspout, but Sally scarcely noticed.
Only when the waterspout caught fire, blazing up with the breathy hiss of newspaper did she stand and look, gradually raising both fists to hail the impossible castle of flame that hid Sia from her once more.
Tristam whispered, for a waterspout spun toward them not thirty feet away.
Tristam heard Pim rapidly mumbling a prayer as though he raced to get through it before he was swallowed whole, but the waterspout passed them by.
The waterspout, he saw at once, would as a mere object of precious metal be worth a tremendous sum.
Chunks and pieces of her timbers spun out of the great waterspout hundreds of feet in the air to settle with agonizing slowness to the surface again.