"But you called a waterspout when those ships came after us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
Hard to see in the picture, I know, but that is a waterspout, which is an-above water tornado. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005] Reference
A waterspout is a whirling body of water, which rises from the sea like a sharp-pointed pillar. From Wordnik.com. [The Coral Island] Reference
A waterspout is depicted. From Wordnik.com. [Did You Know? The centenary of the birth of artist Juan O'Gorman] Reference
"waterspout," by the meeting of winds upon the converging edge of our bowl of highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
The rain apparently was something like a waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
When they're over water, you call them a waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2007] Reference
It looks like a tornado, but it's a waterspout here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 26, 2008] Reference
He has great got some great pictures of a waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2006] Reference
And a waterspout spotted off of the coast of Trinidad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007] Reference
When a waterspout moves onto land, it becomes a tornado. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2008] Reference
Maybe an offshore or onshore waterspout coming on shore. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference
Some powerful storm spawning a waterspout in Rhode Island. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008] Reference
Alex Raymond and Eric Miller spotted this giant waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
We're going to give you the story behind a massive waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007] Reference
The beach patrol saw this waterspout actually coming on shore. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
But you can see that's not just a small, little, wispy waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
The ship was lowered about a hundred feet away from the waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth] Reference
Amazing pictures of a waterspout on Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007] Reference
So, this waterspout only knocked down a few tents that were on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2007] Reference
We didn't hear about any damage pertaining to this particular waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2007] Reference
Meanwhile the waterspout, whirling like a dervish, bore down upon the bark. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
And an incredible sight in New Orleans, a waterspout on Lake Pontchartrain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007] Reference
Meteorologists say the twister began as a waterspout and then moved inland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009] Reference
I've known a waterspout do even more damage than this; so let us be thankful! '. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
The waterspout, traveling with the speed of an express train, bore down upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
A waterspout stooped over the forest and sucked up a mass of crackling branches. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Yes, it started out actually as a spout, kind of a waterspout over the Hudson River. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2006] Reference
Look, if there are not a number of dead fish which the waterspout must have sucked up. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
` It's only a waterspout, they come sometimes along with this appearance of the sea! '. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
Suddenly the waterspout separated from the great cloud mass and moved rapidly eastward. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
I know we'll get caught in a whirlpool, or in a waterspout, or some other dreadful thing!. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
Usually when you see a waterspout like this, be it's weak and usually causes very little damage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2007] Reference
The power of nature on the open sea, this waterspout, one of several spotted near Boynton Beach. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2007] Reference
Look at this, off the Santa Monica shore, under those dramatically menacing clouds, a waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005] Reference
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