sput
See also: spùt and spūt
English
Noun
sput (plural sputs)
- An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sput in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- PUTs, puts, supt., tups
Old French
Noun
sput m (oblique plural spuz or sputz, nominative singular spuz or sputz, nominative plural sput)
- Alternative form of esput
Westrobothnian
Noun
sput m (definite sputn, dative sputåm)
- water jet, gush of water or other liquid
- waterfall
Related terms
- spūt
- bladsput m