stopcock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stopcock
Example Sentences
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The image immediately above shows the location of a gas stopcock cover.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2014
If you have sufficient reserve in your vacuum calculations after counting the pressure increases from hose lengths and fittings, adding a stopcock or two is helpful.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the secondary filter has a drain, drain it, close the stopcock, refill it with fresh fuel and refit it to the flange.
From Time Magazine Archive
Similarly, a stopcock on the output side of the filter could keep spills to a minimum.
From Time Magazine Archive
He put it with an admirable mixture of compliment and depreciation, as though either was a sort of stopcock to meet a too reluctant modesty on my part or a too exorbitant demand for payment.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
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