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View synonyms for stopcock

stopcock

[ stop-kok ]

stopcock

/ ˈstɒpˌkɒk /

noun

  1. a valve used to control or stop the flow of a fluid in a pipe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stopcock1

First recorded in 1575–85; stop + cock 1
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Example Sentences

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”.

"As ice turns to water in the Arctic, New Atlantis turns stopcocks in London," trumpet the headlines in the newspapers.

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The image immediately above shows the location of a gas stopcock cover.

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Just a reason to turn on the stopcock that takes government cash from its source in the Treasury.

“The stopcock is broken off this manifold and needs to be sealed back together.”

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