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Waterspout

noun

A tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist.

A heavy rain. Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent.

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

... fleet upon fleet innumerable through trackless space! And over an infinitely grander sea than the measureless ocean of worlds, the Father was carrying navies of human souls, every soul a world whose affairs none but the Father could understand, through many a storm, and waterspout, and battle with the powers of evil, safe to the haven of the children, the Father's house! And Clare began to understand ...

— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald

... Sea, its white teeth gnashing Through its coral-reef lips flashing, "Shall I let this scheming mortal Shut with stone my shining portal, Curb my tide and check my play, Fence with wharves my shining bay? Rather let me be drawn out In one awful waterspout!" ...

— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... I sent down and arranged with Charlie Taylor to go down that afternoon. I had scarce got the saddle bags fixed and had not yet mounted, when the rain began. But it was no use delaying now; off I went in a wild waterspout to Apia; found Charlie (Sale) Taylor - a sesquipedalian young half-caste - not yet ready, had a snack of bread and cheese at the hotel while waiting him, and then off to Malie. It rained all the way, seven miles; the road, which begins in triumph, dwindles down to a ...

— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... The waterspout, traveling with the speed of an express train, bore down upon me. With it came the wind, roaring deafeningly. I lost all other sound, with such enormous confusion the tornado swept upon me. The whale rolled as though it had come to ...

— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... downpour of rain, which fell upon the frigate's deck like a waterspout, cut short all further speech by its deafening tumult, and although it lasted but a few minutes, it killed the fury of the squall to such an extent that the ship, unsteadied by her canvas, rolled so violently that ...

— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

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