Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
faucet . - noun In glass-manuf.:
- noun A basket of wire secured to the end of a rod, for the purpose of carrying the bottle from the mold or blowing-rod to the leer.
- noun A rod put into the mouth of the bottle for the same purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Glass Making) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also
pontee andpunty .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun glassmaking A
wire basket on the end of arod to carryglass bottles , etc., to theannealing furnace . - noun glassmaking An
iron rod to bethrust into themouths ofbottles to carry them to thefurnace .
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Andrew Ferraiuolo, 10, may be years away from playing prep basketball, but he already has one fascet of his game nailed down.
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A war isn’t water coming out of a fascet – you don’t just turn the knob, and whalla, it’s all fixed.
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