a. [f. SPOUT v.] Given to spouting or discharging water.
1705. Earl Haddington, Forest Trees (1765), 6. I … find it thrive in rich, poor, middling, heathy, gravelly, spouty, clay and mossy ground.
1708. Phil. Trans., XXVI. 62. The place was cover’d with a Scurf of wet spouty Earth about a Foot thick.
1746. Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope, 139. A Column of them in Disorder were coming along westwards under a ‘spouty’ bank.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, I. 505. I have frequently made lines of drains across the spouty sloping faces of fields.
1892. J. Colville, in Blackw. Mag., Oct., 472/2. Oak would root itself firmly in the valleys,… alder in swamps and spouty land.
