stopcock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stopcock
Example Sentences
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While down below, in the engine room, there grow “vines of copper piping and sprouting thermometers, the fuel pumps budded with bolts and flowering stopcocks”.
From Economist
"As ice turns to water in the Arctic, New Atlantis turns stopcocks in London," trumpet the headlines in the newspapers.
From BBC
The image immediately above shows the location of a gas stopcock cover.
From BBC
“The stopcock is broken off this manifold and needs to be sealed back together.”
From New York Times
A brass tube AB, polished inside, and closed with plates of highly diathermanous rocksalt at either end, was fitted with stopcocks C and D for exhausting and admitting air or other gases or vapours.
From Project Gutenberg
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