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n. - Faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid; One employed to control water supply by shutting water mains on and off.

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  • Antipa Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.
  • It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock.
  • Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.
  • Let me ask, What are the real feelings of a householder who is requested to hand out a present to a turncock or dustman whom he has never seen?
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