Crossword clues for stopcock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stopcock \Stop"cock`\, 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.
The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. [R.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe. 2 (context British English) A main shutoff for water to a home from a municipal supply. Usually these valves exist in pairs, on outside the property boundary and one inside the property boundary.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A stopcock is a form of ball valve used to control the flow of a liquid or gas. Compared to the progressive control of a gate valve a stop cock's is coarse, confining their use principally to on-off applications.
Usage examples of "stopcock".
And that rum fellow Dever came out with apocalyptic warnings of the consequences were the stopcock closed.
He piggy-backed the bottle containing the succiny1choline onto the other, with only the thin blue stopcock separating him from its lethal contents.
His plan was to inject the huge dose of morphine and then open the stopcock on the solution containing the succiny1choline.
Versed drip inserted into the saline bag hung from the gurney, he turned the plastic stopcock to stop the flow: tranquilization, like the intubation, was no longer necessary.
Then, reaching for the stopcock at the base of the liter bag of saline, she turned it clockwise as far as it would go.
He strode quickly over to it, found the stopcock, and turned it to increase the flow.
Swift, the young inventor, whose acquaintance some of you have previously made, gave one look at the gauge, and seeing that the pressure was steadily mounting, endeavored to reach, and open, a stopcock, that he might relieve the strain.
Turning toward the Versed drip inserted into the saline bag hung from the gurney, he turned the plastic stopcock to stop the flow: tranquilization, like the intubation, was no longer necessary.
Vaylance reversed the stopcock and forced air into a vent on the side of the reservoir, and it slowly emptied.
Suspended there on the back of the sinking Triton, Tolland turned the stopcock, opening the valve.
Dever knows his stopcocks and bulkheads, but he is a diplomatic disaster.
It was wired to the cap nut on the tank, and included a pressure gauge, stopcock, and the necessary threaded fittings for attachment.
Margo turned the glass stopcock, stopping the flow of solution, and recorded the level on the graduated cylinder.
Then she hooks up the pint of blood and turns a plastic stopcock, starting the flow.
The stink told him: Mils had the stopcock open and was spraying along the river.