spouter
nounEtymology From spout + -er.
1
Anything that spouts.
2
Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.
- a spouter of hateful rhetoric
3
Archaic A whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
4
Historical A vessel used in whaling.
- Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270:
5
Historical, Rare A person engaged in whaling; a skillful whaler.