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rainspout

n. A spout through which rainwater can drain from the roof of a building, etc.

Usage examples of "rainspout".

Her throat had closed up like a dirt-clogged rainspout, and the words could barely emerge.

They turned and watched Mayna creep easily down the building, using the rainspout very little.

He had a long wait, occasionally hearing the dripping of an unseen rainspout or the sound of a car whizzing by on the wet pavement at the intersection.

When several deep breaths did not calm her, she started around the building, moving to the rainspout that would lead her to the roof and her private place.

For several meters along the wall of the building ran a concrete rainspout from the hill, and we wore out our shoes climbing up and sliding down it endlessly, that is, until the bell for class.

THE NIGHT, Marianne was awakened by a steady drumming of rain, a muffled tattoo as from a thousand drumsticks on the flat porch roof, a splash and gurgle from the rainspout at the corner of the house outside Mrs.

Boys from High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, windowsills, cornices, gutters, chimneypots, railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering the pillar of the cloud appears.

It had a mousetrap of elaborate gutters and winding rainspouts that emptied into big barrels here and there, while a small wooden windlass secured with ropes and pulleys hung down the front of the building.

But now she was turning very adeptly and moving along the narrow ledge toward the rainspout.