SPURT, v.t. [The English word has suffered a transposition of letters. It is from the root of sprout, which see.] To throw out, as liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube. SPURT, v.i. To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream. Then the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, spurts in the gardners eyes who turns the cock.SPURT, n. 1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid substance from a tube, orifice or other confined place; a jet.2. A sudden or short occasion or exigency; sudden effort. [Vulgar.] |
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