The Collaborative International Dictionary
Four-way \Four"-way`\, a.
Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way
cock, or valve.
--Francis.
Four-way cock, a cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various other purposes. In the illustration, a leads to the upper end of a steam engine cylinder, and b to the lower end; c is the steam pipe, and d the exhaust pipe.
Usage examples of "four-way".
Nikki forced a smile to his lips and edged past an energetic, four-way argument on the relative merits of various chicken breeds to answer the voice hailing him from a low bench behind aleather-strewn table.
The apparency was of quadruple primaries near enough for a four-way tidal sharing of plasma, a situation which seemed physically impossible.
He had scaled mountains, raced sports cars, worked in a steel foundry, traveled cross-county on a Vincent Black Shadow with Hell's Angels, marched with Chavez in the Coachella Valley, spent time in Southern jails for civil rights activities, chummed it up with a Mafia capo, managed to con a trio of radical feminist lesbians into a four-way sexual liaison, covered a South American revolution, hired himself out to a firm specializing in industrial espionage, and God knows what all else.
I pulled up to the four-way stop where 160 split off to the west and 57/171 angled off to the east and then a long curve around to the south.
When you reach a four-way stop, hardly anyone ever goes before you.
Soon there would be a four-way stop and flashing red light where a drawbridge led left over the Sacramento River to Rio Vista.
The Navatar negotiated a four-way stop, granting right-of-way to a retrofitted SUV with three children inside even though by strict rules of precedence, the Navatar should have gone next.
We crawled through Crawford, inadvertently ran a four-way stop that I thought was two-way, and almost got T-boned by a Chevy pickup.
At a four-way stop a kid in a red Isuzu pickup tried to turn in behind me, and the guy in the Mustang jumped the stop sign and blew his horn, cutting him off.
He had worked his way back to the main road about a quarter of a mile north of the four-way stop.