Antipa Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

The little man was left in the centre of the room, his deep eyes smouldering upon the backs of the retreating members, his thumb and finger raised to the turncock of the metre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference

The master workman in the engine-room does not teach his apprentice the theory of expansion, or of atmospheric pressure; he guides his hand upon the turncock, he practises his eye upon the index, and he leaves the science to follow when the practice has become mechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock who lingers in one of them, and whom I suspect of a turn for poetry; the rather as he looks out of temper when he gives the fire-plug a disparaging wrench with that large tuning-fork of his which would wear out the shoulder of his coat, but for a precautionary piece of inlaid leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference

I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock who lingers in one of them, and whom I suspect of a turn for poetry; the rather, as he looks out of temper when he gives the fire-plug a disparaging wrench with that large tuning-fork of his which would wear out the shoulder of his coat, but for a precautionary piece of inlaid leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference

One knew at a glance that if the turncock was to come, see, and overcome the reluctance of the allotted cock-to-be-turned, the water would burst out at every pore of the service-pipes in that house, except the taps; and would know also that the adept who came to soften their hearts and handles would have to go back for his tools, and would be a very long time away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

"Oh, very well," he answered promptly; "then we're the 'Backward Sons of Gentlemen' -- that's down in the prospectus -- and we're fetching water for Mother Stimcoe, because the turncock cut off the company's water this morning!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison Island] Reference

"Yes, missis; by means of the turncock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

The bedroom, which goes with this magnificent trumpery, is a small closet without curtains to the window or bed, no fireplace (and the range of the winter thermometer in New York is from zero to twenty-one degrees below it), a bed pushed against the door, so that the latter cannot open, a washing-stand, which is a fixture, i.e., a corner cupboard, containing a waste-pipe and plug in a sunk marble basin, with a turncock above it, because that saves the housemaid the trouble of emptying slops; there is not even room or any substitute for a towel-horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference