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Waterspout

noun
1.
A tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist.
2.
A heavy rain.  Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent.
3.
A channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof).





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"Waterspout" Quotes from Famous Books



... shot forward as though from a catapult, feet foremost, and, as he fought and struggled to get his breath, he saw that he was in the midst of a giant waterspout, as it leaped from the end of the broken flume and plunged, like a stream from an immense hose, into a swirling pool which the freed sluice water had dug in the ...
— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young


Words linked to "Waterspout" :   conduit, rainfall, rain, tornado, twister


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