Noah Webster
Spurt
SPURT, verb transitive [The English word has suffered a transposition of letters. It is from the root of sprout, which see.] To throw out, as liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube.
SPURT, verb intransitive To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream.
Then the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, spurts in the gardners eyes who turns the cock.
SPURT, noun
1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid substance from a tube, orifice or other confined place; a jet.
2. A sudden or short occasion or exigency; sudden effort. [Vulgar.]