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- noun Plural form of
spouthole .
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If you stand on its summit and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its sounding-board.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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