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UK
/wˈɔːtəspˌaʊt/
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NOUN
- a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
- a heavy rain
- a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist
How To Use waterspout In A Sentence
- A waterspout occurs over water; a tornado is its equivalent over land.
- Where there were once waterspouts, now there are dust storms.
- With his hair in disorder, and without his hat, he ran along the street as never man Was seen to run before, overturning passers-by, rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout .
- A scientist said they were probably picked up by a waterspout or mini - tornado out at sea.
- A waterspout is a whirling body of water, which rises from the sea like a sharp-pointed pillar. The Coral Island
- Marlborough then ploughed out into the stormy Mediterranean and passed the rest of the Task Group, her arrival at the Cyprus training grounds being heralded by a severe electrical storm and waterspouts.
- A waterspout is a small tornado that forms over water drawing water upwards to a larger storm cloud. Archive 2008-04-01
- Called prester by the Greeks, typhoon by the Romans, timmins by the Persians, and dragons de mer by the French, waterspouts annihilated ships and massacred sailors. A Furnace Afloat
- A waterspout is a piece of a cloud hanging down in a sloping direction, sometimes bending like a bow, but never perpendicular. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
- This afternoon in Santa Monica, or off the coast of Santa Monica, a waterspout formed over the Pacific Ocean.
