3 entries under this word

Spurt

Spûrt, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SPURTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SPURTING.] [Written also spirt, formed on sprit, by a transposition of the letters i and r. See SPRIT, and cf. SPROUT.] To throw out, as a liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube.

Spûrt, v. i.

verbintransitive

To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream.

Then the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener’s eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

Spûrt, n.

noun

n. 1. A shoot; a bud. [Obs.] Holland.

A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid substance from a tube, orifice, or other confined place; a jet.
A sudden or short occasion or exigency; sudden effort. [Colloq.]

The long, steady sweep of the so-called “paddle” tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt. Hughes.