Crossword-Solution: STOPCOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stopcock | n. | A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc. |
| Stopcock | n. | The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “STOPCOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Faucet with a rotating plug | 1 answer |
| It controls the flow of fluid through a pipe | 1 answer |
| Short pipe opened by turning a handle | 1 answer |
| Type of faucet | 1 answer |
| Valve in water supply | 1 answer |
| Valve on a pipe | 1 answer |
| Water pipe valve | 1 answer |
| faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | 1 answer |
| valve to control or stop the flow of fluid in a pipe | 1 answer |
| Where to turn in a plumbing emergency? | 1 answer |
| Faucet | 11 answers |
| hydrant | 12 answers |
| Valve | 30 answers |
| Tap | 45 answers |
| Gate | 47 answers |
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Sentences with STOPCOCK (5)
The regular working of the machinery was aided by the employment of a balance-beam connected by a chain with the head of the large piston and pump-rods; and the whole of these powerful machines by means of three of which as much as 789,840 gallons of water were pumped out of the mines every 24 hours--were set in operation and regulated merely by the turning of a stopcock.
For perhaps half an hour he waited in the hall; finally, when the acids had cooled so that they no longer gave off fumes, he opened the door and went in, took hold of the platinum wire and, pulling the porcelain disk from the stopcock, allowed the awful contents of the tub to run out.
Hull touched the stopcock in the wall by his side, turning on the gas in both parlours, and proceeded to unlock and open the hall-door.
Hull leaped to his feet and sprang toward it, at the same time, by a turn of the stopcock by his side, setting the gas in both rooms at full blaze.
Where the gas finally leaves the generating-house, or where it enters the residence, a full-way stopcock should be put on the main.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1982–2007).