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Faucet   /fˈɔsət/   Listen
noun
Faucet  n.  
1.
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
2.
The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.





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"Faucet" Quotes from Famous Books



... watching you all those weeks, just too tickled for words. And I've been watching Morrison. It's been as good as a play! He can't stick it out much longer, unless I miss my guess, and I've known him ever since I was a kid. He's just waiting for a good chance to turn on the faucet and hand you a full cup of his irresistible fascination." He added carelessly, bouncing a ball up and down on the tense catgut of his racquet: "What all you girls see in that old wolf-hound, to lose your heads over! ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... macaroni, (cost eight cents,) in three quarts of boiling water, with two tablespoonfuls of salt, one saltspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful of butter, (cost one cent;) boil rapidly for about twenty minutes, then drain it in a colander, run plenty of cold water from the faucet through it, and lay it in a pan of cold water until you are ready to use it. Put into a sauce-pan one gill of tomato sauce, (cost two cents,) one ounce of butter, (cost two cents,) and one gill of any meat gravy free from ...
— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson
... energy is like a barrel of water; you can draw water from the faucet at the bottom until you have almost exhausted ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... deal of additional fun was gained upon finding that someone had surreptitiously set up a placard on one of the tables reading "Reserved for Ladies." Over the cold water faucet was a sign reading "Water" and glasses were ...
— Entertaining Made Easy • Emily Rose Burt
... friends presented him with a keg of beer. It was placed in his skiff. Unfortunately, they forgot to give him a faucet. All that day was very hot, and the entire party longed for a drink from its cooling depths. Late that evening a steamer, towing a raft, came slowly down the river. Paul told the negro to pull alongside and have the raftsman open the keg. They ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton


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