stopcock
Meaning of stopcock
noun
- A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe.
- A main shutoff for water to a home from a municipal supply. Usually these valves exist in pairs, one outside the property boundary and one inside the property boundary.
If you have a burst pipe turn the water off at the stopcock.
Information about stopcock
- It is a name.
- The plural form of stopcock is: stopcocks.
- Languages in which stopcock is used:
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Hyphenation of stopcock
stop-cock
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- stopcock is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
stopcock synonyms
Meaning cock:
Translation of stopcock
- German: Ventil, Hahn
- Spanish: grifo, registro
- Italian: rubinetto
- Portuguese: torneira, registro
- French: robinet
Words that rhyme with stopcock
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