Usage of "escape cock"

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A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.

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Examples for "escape"

Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe. 
 The Guardian 

How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape? 
 Mockingjay 

Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote. 
 The Guardian 

They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one. 
 The new yorker 

Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order. 
 Dhampir 

We had a safety valve and that may have affected our display. 
 The Irish Times 

These disks are a safety valve, deep down in Henrik's private underworld. 
 Kennedy's brain 

And I would put that into the category of the safety valve. 
 The new yorker 

It was a safety valve that allowed the most desperate to go. 
 Reuters 

Eph and Fet backed away from the blue-lit closet, their safety valve. 
 The strain 

The design of the atmospheric relief valve received special consideration. 
 The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment 

That left the reactor dependent on another backup system, a special sort of relief valve. 
 Outliers: the story of success 

But, as luck would have it, the relief valve wasn't working properly that day either. 
 Outliers: the story of success 

In theaters before electricity, Mr. Whittier would say, the ghost light acted as a pressure- relief valve. 
 Haunted: a novel of stories 

Thanks for being such a nice pressure- relief valve. 
 Masters of Space 

The pressure escape valve is often attached to this hydraulic valve body. 
 Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting / Electric, Forge and Thermit ... 

As money laundering becomes harder to hide, Putin is losing his escape valve. 
 Reuters 

If I don't it's not the fault of the escape valve. 
 Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in... 

For many, this is the escape valve party for a ragtag army of none-of-the-aboves. 
 The Guardian 

This time there was no escape valve up through the weak, nonsymmetrical, semisolid layers. 
 The Neutronium Alchemist 

Ús de escape cock en anglès

None who enter escape ...' Cocking her head she raised a hand to forestall any comment. 
 Return of the Crimson Guard 

Translations for escape cock

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Significats de escape cock en anglès