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chained_bear commented on the word sweetening-cock
"...remarks have been passed about the charnel-house, cess-pit stink between decks, so perhaps we had better open the sweetening-cock."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 217–218
A Sea of Words says, "See sea-cock." So I will.
March 7, 2008