waterspout
- n a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist
- n a heavy rain
- n a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
- Few people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout.
- My observer reported a huge waterspout springing up .
- Hour later another and smaller waterspout raced in from the lake toward awe-struck Conneaut, expired in a lakeside park.