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sea-spout
†1. A sea-anemone. Obs. rare.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 212 The Sea-Spout is a very strange production of nature. It looks like a spunge or lump of moss, and sticks to the sea-rocks so fast that no beating of either winds or waves can move it. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 323 The Sea-spout..is of a green colour, emits water, and within is like a tough piece of flesh.
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1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sea-spout, the jetting of sea-water over the adjacent lands, when forced through a perforation in a rocky shore; both its egress and ingress are attended with a rumbling noise, and the spray is often injurious to the surrounding vegetation. |