subs. (nautical).—See quot. and SPOUT.
1835. R. H. DANA, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, Nov., 14. The ‘SPOUTER,’ as the sailors call a whaleman, had … made signal for us to heave to. Ibid., 8 Sept. One who had been in a ‘SPOUTER,’ and, of course, had all the whaling stories to himself.
