water-cock

_ -- By immediately shutting off both cocks, the water-cock first, then I would open the blow-out cock (at the bottom of the gauge-glass) and keep it open to the finish, and commence unscrewing the nuts, clearing them of any bits of india-rubber that adhered to them, also the sockets.

The Stoker's Catechism W. J. Connor

Dodd shouted as he saw a water-tank, and a receptacle above it with a water-cock.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various

In the pride of being a housewife she loved every detail -- the brocade armchair with the weak back, even the brass water-cock on the hot-water reservoir, when she had become familiar with it by trying to scour it to brilliance.

Main Street 1920

I had turned on the steam - heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not.

A Personal Record 1919

In the pride of being a housewife she loved every detail -- the brocade armchair with the weak back, even the brass water-cock on the hot-water reservoir, when she had become familiar with it by trying to scour it to brilliance.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

I had turned on the steam heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not.

A Personal Record Joseph Conrad 1890

I had turned on the steam-heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not.

Some Reminiscences Joseph Conrad 1890

Every water-cock on the great tower was subject to her.

St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864

Every water-cock on the great tower was subject to her.

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

In order to get at a water-cock on the starboard side, the ship had been heeled down on her larboard side, by running her guns over until the lower deck port-sills were just level with the water.

A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847