LekhoriLekhoriAn instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, an...
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The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
To emit, eject or excrete (something).
Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.