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spigot
[spig-uht]
noun
a small peg or plug for stopping the vent of a cask.
a peg or plug for stopping the passage of liquid in a faucet or cock.
a faucet or cock for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe or the like.
the end of a pipe that enters the enlarged end of another pipe to form a joint.
spigot
/ ˈɪɡə /
noun
a stopper for the vent hole of a cask
a tap, usually of wood, fitted to a cask
a US name for tap 2
a short cylindrical projection on one component designed to fit into a hole on another, esp the male part of a joint ( spigot and socket joint ) between two pipes
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spigot1
Example Sentences
“CHSRA relied on the false hope of an unending spigot of Federal taxpayer dollars,” the Federal Railroad Administration’s acting administrator Drew Feeley wrote.
Kang said that, politically speaking, having a Republican-controlled state Senate was useful for the former governor because it meant “he got to control the spigot of changes coming out of Albany.”
Imagine two spigots pouring money into three buckets.
She drags 200 feet of hose to water her new plantings a few times a month, from a spigot made available by Alliance Susan & Eric Smidt Technology High School next door.
There he only claimed to turn on the water spigot after he visited.
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