Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no spout, as a pitcher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no spout.
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- adjective Having no
spout .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus, for the last four years, the water towers remained full but spoutless.
Stalling 2010
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Brophy, the lame gardener, or the spoutless statue of the watercarrier, or good mother Alphonsus, eh Reynard?
Ulysses 2003
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Their fingers brushed and lingered as he knelt and took the spoutless teapot from her hand.
Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993
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Thus, for the last four years, the water towers remained full but spoutless.
Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989
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With the coffee boiling in the old black and spoutless pot from
The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912
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_ (He clutches her veil) _ A holy abbot you want or Brophy, the lame gardener, or the spoutless statue of the watercarrier, or good mother Alphonsus, eh Reynard?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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No object is too small to prompt his song -- not the sooty film on the bars, or the spoutless teapot holding a bit of mignonette that serves to cheer the dingy town lodging with a "hint that nature lives;" and yet his song is never trivial, for he is alive to small objects, not because his mind is narrow, but because his glance is clear and his heart is large.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885
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His features have all shaped themselves to blowing, and when his trumpet is either bagged or left at home he seems like a chattel in a broker's booth, a spoutless watering-can, a promise to pay no sum particular!
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884
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For the sake of renewing her delight, the instant she turned from it, satisfied for the moment, the fountain ceased to play, and the horse remained spoutless, awaiting the revival of the darling's desire; for she was not content to see him spouting: she must see him spout.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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For the sake of renewing her delight, the instant she turned from it, satisfied for the moment, the fountain ceased to play, and the horse remained spoutless, awaiting the revival of the darling's desire; for she was not content to see him spouting: she must see him spout.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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