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Faucet   /fˈɔsət/   Listen
Faucet

noun
1.
A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.  Synonym: spigot.



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"Faucet" Quotes from Famous Books



... quarts of boiling water, with two tablespoonfuls of salt, one saltspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful of butter, (cost one cent;) boil rapidly for about twenty minutes, then drain it in a colander, run plenty of cold water from the faucet through it, and lay it in a pan of cold water until you are ready to use it. Put into a sauce-pan one gill of tomato sauce, (cost two cents,) one ounce of butter, (cost two cents,) and one gill of any meat gravy ...
— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson

... wash the oysters by holding them under the cold-water faucet. Strain the juice and put the oysters back in it, and put them on the fire and let them just simmer till the edges of the oysters curl; then drain them from the juice again and drop them in the sauce, and add a little more salt (celery-salt ...
— A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl • Caroline French Benton

... the floor was a brass pedal, like that of a piano. Sure enough, there was a reservoir above and a faucet with the head of a dragon on it peering up into my face, which I never had noticed before. Now, the pedal of my piano works hard, so I bent all my strength to this one, and lo! from that impudent ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell

... other way, but when she gets on a telephone line she's a hostile monopolist. Early in the morning she grabs it and holds it fiercely against all comers, while talking with her friends about the awful time she had the night before when the cold water faucet in the kitchen began to drip. Mrs. Askinson can talk an hour on this fertile subject, stopping each minute or two to say, with the most corrosive dignity, to some poor victim who is wiggling his receiver hook: "Please get off this line, whoever you are. Haven't you any manners? I'm ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

... she, "and seen what it was. There was a long tub and a tin pail. There was a trapdoor in the floor that was right over the river. I reached down and drew up a pail of water, and it was right cold. Then I seen a turn faucet, end of a pipe that stuck out over the tub. It brought in some right hot water that come up within six feet of the door. It didn't take me long to figure that this was the hot-water faucet. So there was hot and cold water both right on the spot, and I reckon there ain't no such ...
— Maw's Vacation - The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone • Emerson Hough

... energy is like a barrel of water; you can draw water from the faucet at the bottom until you have ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... nervously at the clock—then about to strike eleven—surveyed with dismay the disordered kitchen, looked through the open door into the dining-room, where the unwashed breakfast dishes were yet standing, took her hands out of the dough and ran to wash them at the faucet. ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various

... arched recess in the wall, whence a door communicated with the adjoining chamber, was concealed by a portiere of blue that matched the lambrequins, and the alcove served as a miniature dressing-room, where the brass faucet ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... unshaded lamp, and looking very cross and tired. He glanced at us without comment as he went over to the sink. "Nobody offered me anything good to drink," he complained, "so I came in to get some water from the faucet for my nightcap." ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various



Words linked to "Faucet" :   spigot, mixing faucet, water faucet, handle, water tap, handgrip, tap, hold, cock, grip, turncock, stopcock, hydrant, regulator



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