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Stopcock

noun
1.
Faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid.  Synonyms: cock, turncock.






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"Stopcock" Quotes from Famous Books



... the top of the frame. The floor of the stage should be built out on the front twelve inches, for the placing of a row of gas-burners with tin reflectors, painted black on the outside; this row of lights should be furnished with a stopcock, which can be placed in the gentleman's dressing-room. A row of strong lights should also be placed on each side of the stage, within three feet of the ceiling; these also should have reflectors and separate stopcocks, ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head

... rubber tube having a nozzle at the end. The whole apparatus being strapped upon my back, I was enabled to direct a stream of powerful precipitating gas in any desired direction, the flow being under control through the agency of a small stopcock. By means of this ghost-extinguisher I was enabled to pursue my experiments as far as ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough



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