catflap.org Online Dictionary Query

  Spout \Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See
     Spout, v. t.]
     1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip,
        pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind
        through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is
        conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the
        spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the
        roof of a building. --Addison. ``A conduit with three
        issuing spouts.'' --Shak.
  
              In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is
              contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir
                                                    T. Browne.
  
              From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
                                                    --Pope.
  
     2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
        receptacle.
  
     3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
        rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
  
     To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or
        pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up
        which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

  up the spout
     prep.phr.
     1 (lb en slang) broken; not functional or workable; kaput
     2 (lb en military slang) In the chamber, having an ammunition round
  in a weapon's chamber.
     3 (lb en slang) pregnant
     4 (lb en archaic slang) At the pawnbroker's shop (in allusion to the
  spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles).

  up the spout
     prep.phr.
     1 (lb en slang) broken; not functional or workable; kaput
     2 (lb en military slang) In the chamber, having an ammunition round
  in a weapon's chamber.
     3 (lb en slang) pregnant
     4 (lb en archaic slang) At the pawnbroker's shop (in allusion to the
  spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles).

  up the spout
     prep.phr.
     1 (lb en slang) broken; not functional or workable; kaput
     2 (lb en military slang) In the chamber, having an ammunition round
  in a weapon's chamber.
     3 (lb en slang) pregnant
     4 (lb en archaic slang) At the pawnbroker's shop (in allusion to the
  spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles).

  up the spout
     prep.phr.
     1 (lb en slang) broken; not functional or workable; kaput
     2 (lb en military slang) In the chamber, having an ammunition round
  in a weapon's chamber.
     3 (lb en slang) pregnant
     4 (lb en archaic slang) At the pawnbroker's shop (in allusion to the
  spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles).