Meaning

• A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

  "I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke."

• A stream of liquid.

• The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

Meaning

• To gush forth in a jet or stream

  "Water spouts from a hole."

• To eject water or liquid in a jet.

  "The whale spouted."

• To speak tediously or pompously.

• To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

• To pawn; to pledge.

  "to spout a watch"