upspout

English

Etymology

up- +‎ spout

Verb

upspout (third-person singular simple present upspouts, present participle upspouting, simple past and past participle upspouted)

1. (poetic) To spout upward.
   • 1868, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton, New Poems: Chronicles and characters, page 313:

     And swift from underneath upspout / Thick showers of hissing arrows that down-rain / Their rattling drops upon the walls, […]