Crossword clues for pour
pour
- Serve from a tap
- Serve from a pitcher
- Serve coffee
- Serve at a tea party
- Serve a beverage
- Rain torrentially
- More than sprinkle
- Do a sommelier's job
- Do a mixologist's job
- Transfer from pitcher to glass
- Tip a teapot
- Sling, as coffee
- Serve, like syrup
- Serve, as syrah
- Serve, as sake
- Serve, as oolong
- Serve, as champagne
- Serve the wine
- Serve the java
- Serve the iced tea
- Serve Sauterne
- Serve from a teapot, perhaps
- Serve coffee, for example
- Serve beer from a pitcher
- Serve beer
- Serve a cocktail
- Refill a glass, say
- Rain, rain, rain
- Rain very heavily
- Rain relentlessly
- Propel nonstop
- Plea to tea hostess
- Perform a wine steward's job
- More than rain
- More than drizzle
- Get milk out of a pitcher
- Freshen someone's glass, perhaps
- Do the honors at tea
- Do decanting
- Do afternoon honors
- Do a bartender's job
- Dispense tea — rain hard
- Dispense drinks
- Come down in torrents
- Serve sake, e.g.
- Rain cats and dogs
- Really come down
- Decant, e.g
- Come down hard, as rain
- Use a ewer
- Come down heavily
- Dispense, as milk
- Serve, as tea
- Rain hard
- Preside over the tea ceremony
- Mixologist's instruction
- Somewhat
- Flood (in)
- Do a wine steward's job
- Rain really hard
- Teem
- Rain heavily
- Officiate at tea
- Preside at tea
- Come down like cats and dogs
- Do a bar job
- Serve tea
- Serve the coffee
- Stream
- Serve drinks
- Preside at a tea table
- Officiate at a tea
- Come down in buckets
- Gush
- Shower
- Do honors at teatime
- Fill glasses
- ___ favor
- Do some bartending
- Rain buckets
- Be the bartender
- Serve, as coffee
- Do the honors at teatime
- Serve the tea
- Do the honors, at a winefest
- Serve, as syrup
- Serve wine
- Serve sake, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pour
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it is pouring with rainBritish English, it is pouring rain American English (= a lot of rain is falling)
▪ When we went outside it was pouring with rain.
pour milk
▪ She poured some milk into a saucepan.
pour oil on troubled waters (=try to make an angry situation calmer)
pour (sb) a drink
▪ She got out two glasses and poured us a drink.
pour tea
▪ She poured the tea and handed a cup to Cara.
pour the coffee (out)
▪ He poured the coffee out into mugs.
pouring rain (=very heavy rain)
▪ He left us standing in the pouring rain.
sunlight streams/pours somewhere (=a lot comes in)
▪ Mabel pulled back the curtains, and sunlight streamed in.
sweat runs/pours somewhere
▪ My hand was shaking and sweat was pouring off my forehead.
the rain pours down (=a lot of rain comes down)
▪ The rain was pouring down and I was quickly soaked.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ Above, the cloud banks had parted: the moon poured down its drenching blue brilliance.
▪ Sweat was pouring down my forehead and dripping into my eyes.
▪ By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces.
▪ The rain poured down, soaking their hair, seeping into their collars, dripping off their chins as they kissed.
▪ The rain continued to pour down. 7.08 p.m.
▪ The night poured down in waves from the ridge above them and the guns at last fell silent.
▪ She half fell, half collapsed against it, unable to stop the tears of fear and anguish pouring down her face.
▪ Carcinoma, methadone, diabetes, depression, miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather.
forth
▪ No hardship: the wit pours forth on every page, along with the lamentations.
▪ Will it make research funding pour forth increasingly?
▪ Scholarly ink, mixed with scholarly gall, was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery.
in
▪ Gifts poured in for the youngster.
▪ Here, as more glacial streams poured in, the Tatshenshini grew wider, colder and more powerful.
▪ Aid poured in and couples rushed to adopt the children.
▪ And the letters and media guides poured in.
▪ Complaints poured in like windblown hail.
▪ Wagons poured in, crammed with farmers and their families.
▪ Money poured in, funding a fleet of ships and dozens of simultaneous campaigns.
▪ Hundreds of workers used to pour in from General Dynamics plants over the course of a day.
off
▪ Within a minute the sweat was pouring off him and his jacket sticking to his back.
▪ Remove and set aside. Pour off fat.
▪ I should have sat up, eyes staring and sweat pouring off my forehead like in some old Hammer Brothers movie.
▪ Turn and brown on second side. Pour off excess fat.
▪ Between the gusts, the sound of rain on the roof and water pouring off it was continuous.
▪ Chemical smoke pouring off the shipyards and factories.
▪ The sweat poured off the doctor's face.
▪ Remove goose and pour off all but 2 tablespoons of oil.
out
▪ The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry.
▪ Contracts for rifles, wagons, uniforms, boots, corn, ammunition, artillery, and ships poured out of Washington.
▪ A libation of orange juice poured out on the ground to the memory of Uncle Max, that's all.
▪ The dimness against the far wall was broken by light pouring out through an open door.
▪ She would regularly pour out her heart to the kind-hearted friend who she has known since her teenage days.
▪ Florida says it pours out $ 400 million annually.
▪ She poured out a generous measure of malt whisky and positioned the glass in front of his nose.
▪ She did not know how to speak to him; she wanted to pour out all she felt at once.
over
▪ Heat the oil until it just smokes, pour over the fish and serve.
▪ Let cool and pour over sliced meat.
▪ Roll up each piece of fish and put into an ovenproof dish, pour over the marinade and dot with the butter.
▪ Gently stir, then pour over cooled filling in crust.
▪ Remove from heat and add parsley and pour over fettuccine.
▪ Sprinkle over the sugar and spices, then pour over the syrup.
▪ Stir this into the fromagefrais and pour over the still-hot potatoes in their serving dish.
▪ Mix together the cream, eggs, yolk and sugar and pour over the pears.
then
▪ Check the seasoning then pour the sauce over the chicken.
▪ He drinks off the brandy sip by sip and then pours himself another glass.
▪ Add the lime shreds and juice of the 2 limes, then pour the chilli syrup over the fruit.
▪ Whisk to smooth sauce and then pour over rabbit.
▪ Sprinkle over the sugar and spices, then pour over the syrup.
▪ Henry pulled a chair out for me and then poured me some coffee while I looked around.
▪ Werner placed the attache case beside the chair then poured himself a stiff Scotch from the crystal decanter on the sideboard.
▪ Concrete was then poured into the corrugated surface formed by the decking.
■ NOUN
beer
▪ In a large saucepan, pour the beer that you warm for 5 minutes.
▪ He smiled, sitting back again, and poured us more beer.
▪ We can forgive Maxine's snoring and smelly feet, but pouring good beer down the sink?
▪ Will pouring beer on the stone promote growth of new moss? &038;.
▪ She dropped ice cubes into a glass and poured in root beer.
▪ She poured his beer, got him more bread and butter, and other little things.
blood
▪ The liquid looks very like human blood and was poured at night on to the fields.
▪ There I was, falling through the air, blood pouring from my temple, coming to rest on the snow.
▪ Hewett, blood pouring from his face, looked for James, but he was gone.
▪ I slice a piece out of my finger, see the blood pour out, and lose consciousness.
▪ The blood is pouring from his body, through the cracks in the table and on to the floor below.
▪ I could feel the blood pouring out, drenching the bed.
▪ A fountain of blood at first pours from his chest, but soon subsides to become a steady trickle.
▪ His blood, pouring all over his cherry-red leather seats.
brandy
▪ She poured him a large brandy.
▪ I carried the telephone into the kitchen, poured a little pear brandy, and sat down with it at the table.
▪ When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy.
▪ She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses.
▪ He immediately went to the sideboard and poured two glasses of brandy.
▪ She poured herself more brandy and sat on the balcony, invisible against the dark room.
▪ He took out a pipe and poured a little brandy.
coffee
▪ I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.
▪ His genteel manner of pouring coffee for his guests is perfectly in place.
▪ He stared at the tablecloth while Madeleine poured coffee into his big cup.
▪ People were pouring coffee all over the place.
▪ She poured coffee and then glanced over in his direction.
▪ I wish I could tell you that I poured scalding coffee in his lap!
▪ Rain frowned as she poured the coffee.
▪ Henry pulled a chair out for me and then poured me some coffee while I looked around.
cup
▪ When it did she made the coffee quickly and poured herself a cup.
▪ Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter, buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.
▪ Lily waited until he had eaten and she had poured him a second cup.
▪ Stay in the same place and ask your partner to pour water into the cup or bowl.
▪ She was pouring a cup of tea when the solution came to her.
▪ The waitress would pour you a cup of coffee.
▪ Excuse me while I pour a cup, just to get over the revelation.
▪ He watched Lux pour himself a half cup of coffee and sit down in front of the radios.
drink
▪ She got up, fiddled with the drinks, pouring herself another whiskey for something to do.
▪ Manningham was in full flood, downing his drink and pouring himself a fresh one.
▪ He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet, pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol.
▪ Omally's bottles were unearthed and drinks were poured.
▪ They will prevent people losing their drinks and pouring another.
▪ Our Christmas food had been consumed and most of the drink had been poured down our throats.
face
▪ By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces.
▪ Hewett, blood pouring from his face, looked for James, but he was gone.
▪ She half fell, half collapsed against it, unable to stop the tears of fear and anguish pouring down her face.
▪ The woman, who lives in Childwall, dashed to her ward with blood pouring from her face.
▪ Here Rodrigo and Elinor Moynihan would jive until the sweat poured down their faces.
▪ Something seemed to pour through his face and overwhelm her, something molten, timeless, glorious.
glass
▪ He came back, enthusiastically popped the cork and poured two glasses of the fizzy wine.
▪ He drinks off the brandy sip by sip and then pours himself another glass.
▪ Ruth looked up at him with pain in her heart as he poured two glasses.
▪ He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.
▪ Something made me pour myself a glass of wine before Stuart returned at his usual hour of 6.30.
▪ With trembling hands he poured more into the glass.
▪ She opened the wine and poured some into the glass.
▪ He changed his mind about the sherry and poured himself a glass from the decanter on the table.
heart
▪ We may pour out our hearts about the situation in which we find ourselves, expressing our trust, hope and confidence.
▪ Amid all the purple, there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts.
▪ He poured out his heart to me.
▪ She would regularly pour out her heart to the kind-hearted friend who she has known since her teenage days.
▪ I think he poured his heart and soul into dance.
▪ Andrus had gone to Zoser and poured out his heart.
investor
▪ Experts say that investors pouring into Britain assume that it will join the euro within two years.
▪ In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
▪ Demand for junk bonds has been strong because investors continue to pour cash into corporate bond funds.
light
▪ The noise and the dull angry light of the furnaces poured in.
▪ The dimness against the far wall was broken by light pouring out through an open door.
▪ But when the first nails pull free and the lid creaks up, light pours in with a sifting of earth.
▪ Way at the front end of the house red light came pouring through the tunnel and showed the lake burnished and menacing.
▪ The moon had risen from behind the peach tree and its light came pouring in through the open windows.
▪ Rays of afternoon light poured through the stained glass windows, drenching the sanctuary with splashes of color.
▪ They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land.
▪ The light poured in through the window of our room.
liquid
▪ She poured the leftover liquid into a small bowl.
▪ I poured some liquid into a peanut butter jar and dumped some white powder in itit bubbled.
▪ She was combing out her blonde hair and pouring a colourless liquid from a bottle over her head.
▪ I poured a purplish liquid into the water; it spread through it like ink.
▪ Turn the machine back on and slowly pour in the hot liquid.
▪ When this scanning is complete, the 3D structure is released by pouring out the remaining liquid.
▪ Remove the platter from the steamer and pour off the liquid.
measure
▪ Charles poured two large measures of Bell's and handed one over.
▪ The wine steward returned with the open bottle and poured a measure for Whitlock to taste.
▪ She poured out a generous measure of malt whisky and positioned the glass in front of his nose.
▪ She watched him carefully as Wakelate brought in the brandy and poured out a generous measure.
▪ He poured out a large measure of the whiskey and brought it to McQuaid.
▪ He poured a measure into a shallow quaich, but took thought; and held out to Lachlan the whole bottle.
▪ He poured a generous measure into a plastic cup then slid it over the top of the desk into her hand.
▪ He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure.
milk
▪ Juliet poured milk into a saucepan.
▪ You want me to pour the milk into the cup.
▪ Turn down and pour the milk through a strainer into a bowl.
▪ Mama poured some milk into her tea.
▪ With my own eyes I saw her crumble the loaf to bits and pour fresh milk on it.
▪ Ruth poured cornflakes and milk, and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee.
▪ She poured milk into her mug and stirred vigorously. ` Look at that.
▪ Whisk the egg yolks lightly and pour the hot milk on top.
money
▪ Only the money pouring in by every post seriously concerned her.
▪ Venture capital is investment money pooled together and poured into firms with the potential for rapid, explosive growth.
▪ More public money was poured into researching the various options.
▪ The more the fund-raising activities, the more the money that poured in.
▪ And most brokers in Moscow think that new foreign money will pour into the market if Yeltsin wins.
▪ And the ocean of money pouring into mutual funds provided the tide that lifted the stock market for most of the year.
▪ By the end of 1995 foreign money was pouring back into most of the countries it had hastily fled.
oil
▪ Nor do they mention the rapes, or the order to pour boiling oil over 70 prisoners.
▪ You pour a little baby oil on their feet and it acts as a solvent for the glue.
▪ In Ugaraspitiya, residents said armed men poured motor oil into ballot boxes.
▪ To cook quail, pour oil to a depth of at least 1 inch into a heavy-bottomed frying pan or wok.
▪ Add the garlic, cook for 1-2 minutes, then pour in a little more oil with the courgettes.
▪ In an 8-inch-square glass baking dish, pour in oil and roll potatoes in the oil.
rain
▪ Later that same day, I awoke from a restoring sleep to find rain pouring down outside, the lake nearly invisible.
▪ All night long the rain poured down as though it would wash away every stain of blood.
▪ The rain poured down, soaking their hair, seeping into their collars, dripping off their chins as they kissed.
▪ The rain had ceased to pour, but fog was settling heavily and night was near at hand.
▪ The rain continued to pour down. 7.08 p.m.
▪ The rain had poured all day, and by mid-afternoon it was already getting dark.
▪ Quite extraordinary behaviour - the rain was pouring down.
▪ The first distant crash of thunder shook the air, and the rain began to pour down heavily.
smoke
▪ The News Thin blue smoke poured straight up from the freshly mortared chimney of the McCullochs' house in Weem.
▪ From the other, funnels of smoke poured with flames licking behind them, lighting the dark smoke garishly.
▪ In fact it was a wonder there wasn't smoke pouring out of her ears!
▪ Chemical smoke pouring off the shipyards and factories.
▪ The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea.
▪ Black smoke poured out, quickly turned to blue.
▪ By the time she overlooked the quayside, the decks were vibrating and black diesel smoke was pouring from the funnel.
soul
▪ I think he poured his heart and soul into dance.
sweat
▪ By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces.
▪ The sweat was still pouring out of me, and my shorts and singlet were soaked.
▪ The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived.
▪ Within a minute the sweat was pouring off him and his jacket sticking to his back.
▪ I should have sat up, eyes staring and sweat pouring off my forehead like in some old Hammer Brothers movie.
▪ I was drowning in my own sweat. Sweat was pouring down my forehead and dripping into my eyes.
tea
▪ They fetch cups from behind the counter, and pour some tea.
▪ Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter, buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.
▪ A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush.
▪ Miss Grantly poured lukewarm tea out of a silver teapot and then lolled back gracefully in her chair.
▪ She pinched bruises on her daughter's inner arm, and had poured hot tea on both daughters.
▪ And as I remember, Ijust poured the tea.
▪ I took the milk out of the fridge and poured some into my tea.
▪ Miss Honey poured tea into both mugs and added milk.
tear
▪ She held a damp, grey cloth in her lap and tears were pouring on to it.
▪ It was only when she was in bed that the hot tears poured down her cheeks.
▪ Realizing that her plight was hopeless, Echo fled from the wood, tears pouring down her cheeks.
▪ Monica, tears pouring down her cheeks, gave a tragic smile of triumph.
water
▪ Between the gusts, the sound of rain on the roof and water pouring off it was continuous.
▪ Almost immediately water from outside poured underneath one of the windows and flooded the floor of the test chamber.
▪ You were rolled up tight as a mummy in canvas, then water was poured on it.
▪ If the hunter had no water to pour on the barrel, he might urinate on it.
▪ The water poured off the roofs in torrents, and thunderstorms rent the night skies with brilliant flashes of lightning.
▪ The water poured from the sky as though a fire hydrant had been opened.
▪ He washed thoroughly, standing under his shower while the hot water poured over him.
▪ The water was then carefully poured into the jar, until it was brim-full.
whisky
▪ While the taps were thundering, he poured himself a large whisky and soda, and gulped it.
▪ The man inside the bungalow came out and poured himself a whisky.
▪ She went back into the drawing room and poured herself a whisky and soda.
▪ After a moment he rose slowly, poured himself a whisky, returned to the Chesterfield and took a dismal sip.
▪ She poured out three large whiskies.
▪ He went in and Franco, unbidden, poured him a whisky.
▪ He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet, pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol.
▪ I poured myself a huge whisky.
window
▪ The sun pouring in the east windows made the yellow curtains glow.
▪ With the afternoon sun pouring through the windows, Mr Strine is on edge.
▪ Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room, to the twin flights of the stairs.
▪ Sunlight poured in through the windows, making him squint.
▪ Water was pouring down the window of his bedroom.
▪ The light poured in through the window of our room.
wine
▪ Sauté chicken, pour on stock &038; wine.
▪ Then pour in the cup wine and roast for 1 hour longer.
▪ They helped themselves to salad and Sara poured the wine.
▪ Klein was already in the living room, pouring wine.
▪ She poured the wine then backed away, her head bowed, her throat suddenly dry, her heart pounding.
▪ Robyn remembered his free and easy hand as he had poured her wine.
▪ He took glasses from a cupboard, poured some wine for Rosa, and brought Fabio a glass in the sitting-room.
▪ When the chicken is browned, drain off the oil and pour in the wine and stock.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Hussa got out the della and began to pour coffee.
▪ Since the federal government began pouring money and manpower into the Border Patrol here, experience also has become an issue.
▪ The first distant crash of thunder shook the air, and the rain began to pour down heavily.
▪ Tithes and donations began to pour in.
▪ She sketched even faster, wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain.
▪ It began to pour and I took shelter in a basement café.
▪ Siegfried bustled in, muttered a greeting and began to pour his coffee.
▪ The premonitions began to pour in about Grand National winners, storm warnings, earthquakes and other disasters.
continue
▪ Ideas continue to pour in - to date we have received more than 2,000.
▪ Demand for junk bonds has been strong because investors continue to pour cash into corporate bond funds.
▪ Weeks after Nas's death, cards and letters continued to pour through the door.
▪ Some 100,000 immigrants continue to pour perfectly legally into the country every year.
start
▪ He started to pour cold water over me, inpart to staunch the blood, inpart to revive me.
▪ Lexis said it ended access to Social Security data after complaints started pouring in.
▪ He reaches for the ice bucket and starts pouring the champagne.
▪ They thought they should go before it started pouring again, which of course it did.
watch
▪ Then he continued to watch her as he poured himself more coffee.
▪ He watched Lux pour himself a half cup of coffee and sit down in front of the radios.
▪ She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups.
▪ I watched him as he poured the red ambrosia into the lovely clear glass.
▪ Claire was a very good-looking woman, Harvey considered, watching her pour a drink and sit down opposite to him.
▪ She stood behind the china cabinet and watched as he poured it down the sink.
▪ Coldly she watched him pour out his careless charm, telling herself to be thankful he could sustain no deeper soul.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it never rains but it pours
pour scorn on sb/sth
▪ But Washington last night poured scorn on Mr Chretien's veto claim.
▪ His complicity, if proved, would be a sensation, but even his critics poured scorn on the accusation.
▪ It was this last bit that caused the problem, and critics have poured scorn on the advice ever since.
put/pump/pour money into sth
▪ Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
▪ First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
▪ I too had put money into the hat.
▪ If the possible reward is very high, I would put money into a business that could fail. 4.
▪ In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
▪ Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
▪ The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
▪ This, he says, accounts for developers fighting shy of putting money into the city.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pour the garlic sauce over the hot chicken pieces.
▪ Dan picked up the bucket and poured the sand out of it.
▪ Gradually pour in the sherry and the stock.
▪ Lava from the volcano is pouring down the mountain towards the town.
▪ Rain poured through the open window, waking me again an hour later.
▪ She poured some milk into a glass.
▪ Sweat poured down his face.
▪ Water was pouring out of the release gates on the dam.
▪ Would you pour out the tea?
▪ You hold the cup and I'll pour the juice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the end of 1995 foreign money was pouring back into most of the countries it had hastily fled.
▪ For months, she and Tom had written all those letters, poured out all that love.
▪ In recent years he had come to feel that he was pouring all his energies into a lost cause.
▪ She opened the wine and poured some into the glass.
▪ Stir this into the fromagefrais and pour over the still-hot potatoes in their serving dish.
▪ The rebels fought like demons, and under cover of the dense underbrush poured deadly volleys upon us.
▪ To serve, pour the tomato sauce over the veal and sprinkle with parsley.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pour
Pour \Pour\, v. i. To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
--Gay.
Pour
Pour \Pour\, a.
Poor. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Pour
Pour \Pour\, n.
A stream, or something like a stream; a flood. [Colloq.] ``A
pour of rain.''
--Miss Ferrier.
Pour
Pour \Pour\, v. i.
To pore. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Pour
Pour \Pour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouring.] [OE. pouren, of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwrw to cast, throw, shed, bwrw gwlaw to rain.]
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
-
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord.
--1 Sam. i. 15.Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
--Ezek. vii. 8.London doth pour out her citizens !
--Shak.Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ?
--Milton. -
To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ?
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pour
c.1300, of unknown origin, not in Old English; perhaps from Old French (Flanders dialect) purer "to sift (grain), pour out (water)," from Latin purare "to purify," from purus "pure" (see pure). Replaced Old English geotan. Intransitive sense from 1530s. Related: Poured; pouring; pourable. As a noun from 1790.
Wiktionary
pour
Etymology 1 n. 1 The act of pouring. 2 Something, or an amount, poured. 3 (context colloquial English) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it. 2 (context transitive English) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. Etymology 2
vb. (misspelling of pore English)
WordNet
pour
v. cause to run; "pour water over the floor"
move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: swarm, stream, teem, pullulate]
pour out; "the sommelier decanted the wines" [syn: decant, pour out]
flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor"
supply in large amounts or quantities; "We poured money into the education of our children"
rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pour".
The products resulting from the waste of the tissues are constantly being poured into the blood, and, as we have seen, the blood being everywhere full of corpuscles, which, like all living things, die and decay, the products of their decomposition accumulate in every part of the circulatory system.
With a sigh of relief he pulled his foot out of it, and from it carefully poured into the small power-tank of the craft fully thirty pounds of allotropic iron!
Pour it on the floor, down the side of the wall, spray it through the air above where that damned ampoule landed.
I reached to a pitcher of daru, annoyed that those who remained upon sufferance would dare to doubt-and then merely held the pitcher without pouring.
The veterinarian bowed to it, opened his bag and poured a generous measure of argyrol onto a swab.
From the wall annunciators there poured out a staccato howl of static through which could be dimly heard an alien gobbling which was presumably the SRTT sound tape.
Et soit que ces hommes sentissent en lui quelque chose de divin, soit pour tout autre raison, ils le laisserent aller.
He poured more tea and gave Matern photographs to look at: in a stiff tutu stood Jenny doing an arabesque, like the porcelain ballerina except that her leg was all in one piece.
Anyway, copious quantities of hydrogen gas were pouring from the shaft maw, coming from the rent where the unfortunate brown man had fallen into a ballonet and suffocated.
Prairie grabbed a kettle of institutional tomato soup, carried it on in, and for the next couple of hours she also schlepped racks of newly washed cups and dishes in and bused dirty dishes out, cleaned off tabletops, poured coffee, going from one set of chores to another as they arose, sensing partial vacuums and flowing there to fill them, unable to help noticing that people were taking seconds on the Spinach Casserole, and the baloney too.
Pour the balsamic vinegar mixture over the whole thing, and toss very well.
The brandy came, and Mister Gosling, with a reproachful look at Barnacle, poured it over his bleeding arm.
Rowan began stirring again thoughtfully before pouring the contents of the pan into a large bowl and straining basmati rice into another while her aunt set the table.
Pour a little boiling water into the pan and bake slowly, basting as required.
Clean a large bluefish, put into a baking-pan, pour over it a cupful of boiling salted water, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently.