Possibly the wind carried with it a rainspout, since the effect of the streaming water was as though from somewhere in the sky buckets were being emptied on to the place beneath.
"The Siege of Mafeking (1900)"
J. Angus Hamilton
Her name was never mentioned in the family after she slid down a rainspout one night and eloped to marry a depraved scoundrel who drove through there on a red wagon with tinware inside that he would trade for old rags.
"Somewhere in Red Gap"
Harry Leon Wilson
I got the car pulled in under a wagon shed and put in eighteen hours building a new transmission out of an old copper pump and a rainspout.
"Continuous Vaudeville"
Will M. Cressy