spurt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sudden forcible gush or jet.
2. n. A sudden short burst, as of energy, activity, or growth.
3. v. To gush forth suddenly in a jet.
4. v. To make a brief intense effort or show a sudden increase in activity or speed.
5. v. To force out in a sudden jet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To sprout; shoot.
2. To gush or issue out suddenly in a stream, as liquor from a cask; rush with sudden force from a confined place in a small jet or stream.
3. To throw or force out in a jet or stream; squirt; as, to spurt water from the mouth; to spurt liquid from a tube.
4. n. A shoot; a sprout; a bud.
5. n. A forcible gush of liquid from a confined place; a jet.
6. n. A brief and sudden outbreak.
7. n. A school of shad.
8. To make a short, sudden, and exceptional effort; put forth one's utmost energy for a short time, especially in racing.
9. n. A short, sudden, extraordinary effort for an emergency; a special exertion of one's self for a short distance or space of time, as in running, rowing, etc.: as, by a fine spurt he obtained the lead.
10. n. A short period; a brief interval of time.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
2. v. intransitive To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
3. v. intransitive To make a strong effort for a short period of time.
4. n. A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
5. n. slang Ejaculation of semen
6. n. Any sudden but not prolonged action.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
2. v. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice.
3. n. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
4. n. obsolete A shoot; a bud.
5. n. A sudden outbreak.
6. n. A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
7. v. To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
2. v. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
3. n. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)