turncock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various
The little man was left in the centre of the room, his deep eyes smouldering upon the backs of the retreating members, his thumb and finger raised to the turncock of the metre.
From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John
They watched him oil a turncock sunk in the ground between two furze-bushes.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
Let me ask, What are the real feelings of a householder who is requested to hand out a present to a turncock or dustman whom he has never seen?
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
He wants to have it turned off, because its roaring kept him awake, and he was going first thing after breakfast to see the turncock about it; but, of course, it is hopeless.
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.
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