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spigot

[spig-uht]

noun

  1. a small peg or plug for stopping the vent of a cask.

  2. a peg or plug for stopping the passage of liquid in a faucet or cock.

  3. a faucet or cock for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe or the like.

  4. the end of a pipe that enters the enlarged end of another pipe to form a joint.



spigot

/ ˈɪɡə /

noun

  1. a stopper for the vent hole of a cask

  2. a tap, usually of wood, fitted to a cask

  3. a US name for tap 2

  4. 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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spigot1

1350–1400; Middle English spigot, perhaps < Old French *espigot < Old Provençal espig ( a ) (< Latin ī ear of grain; spica ) + Old French -ot diminutive suffix
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spigot1

C14: probably from Old Provençal espiga a head of grain, from Latin ī a point
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“CHSRA relied on the false hope of an unending spigot of Federal taxpayer dollars,” the Federal Railroad Administration’s acting administrator Drew Feeley wrote.

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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.”

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Imagine two spigots pouring money into three buckets.

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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.

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There he only claimed to turn on the water spigot after he visited.

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