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A pipe, duct, or orifice from which water is spouted or through which it is carried (as from a roof gutter to a cistern).

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  • While your dog may elect to sip from a rusty rainspout, what you give him or her for water is your responsibility.
  • I was wandering around Home Depot the other day looking for either a rainspout or a store employee who could help me locate one.
  • Our local “chippie” will run up the closest rainspout if you startle her and make this adorable highpitched squeaky chirp until you leave.
  • She went up two staircases and a ladder, and out the rooftop hatch, and a moment later there was one more ornamental moonbird-rainspout up on the roof than there had...
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