pour

Ice tea poured into a glass

Meanings

Verb

  • To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
  • To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
  • To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
  • To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
  • To rain hard.
  • Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
  • To move in a throng, as a crowd.
  • Misspelling of pore

Noun

  • The act of pouring.
  • Something, or an amount, poured.
  • A downpour, or flood of precipitation.

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Origin

  • From Middle English pouren, of uncertain origin. Likely to be of Celtic origin, from Celtic base *purr-, akin to Welsh bwrw, Scottish Gaelic purr, Irish purraim. Compare also the rare Dutch pouren.
  • Displaced Middle English schenchen, Middle English schenken (from Old English sċenċan, whence dialectal English shink, and Old Norse skenkja, whence dialectal English skink, and akin to Dutch schenken), Middle English ȝeoten, Middle English yetten (from Old English ġēotan and akin to German gießen), Middle English birlen (from Old English byrelian), Middle English hellen (from Old Norse hella). Largely displaced English teem, from Middle English temen (from Old Norse tœma)

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