Lexicographical Neighbors of Spouty
Literary usage of Spouty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tile Drainage: An Explanation of how and why Tile Will Benefit a Large by James A. King, Mason City Brick and Tile Co (1918)
"Have it reach to some distance to either side of the spouty spot and then ...
Where a series of these spouty spots is found, or there is a continuous line ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1920)
"A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act relating to the draining of wet
or spouty lands In certain counties," approved April 4, 1863, extending the ..."
3. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem, 1.1 (1706). spouty (land)—Full of springs. "I find
it thrive in spouty ground."—Earl Haddington, Forest Trees, 6 (1705). ..."
4. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
""I find it thrive in spouty ground."—Earl Haddington, Forest Trees, 6 (1705).
SPREAD—Repast. "Spreads on the grass for the better sort of people. ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... spouty. Wet clay land is called in the West " spouty land," possibly because,
when trodden upon, ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"Wet clay land is called in the West " spouty land," possibly because, when trodden
upon, the water spouts up through any holes or depressions in the surface ..."
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