Usage of "spigot" | TermGallery

Portuguese

Catalan

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A device applied to the end of a pipe in order to interrupt and regulate the flow of a liquid or gas.

Usage of spigot in English

With a few push-pulls of the handle, water gushed from the spigot. 
 A vote of confidence 

And that was after I bent the spigot out of the way. 
 Beat the reaper: a novel 

When the shower spigot turned and the water shut off, Rena tensed. 
 Million-dollar marriage merger 

Until the economy fully recovers, banks can't turn on the spigot, they say. 
 Reuters 

It's very easy to turn that spigot off, he said in the interview. 
 Reuters 

Refill your water jugs at a spigot in the Bath Rock parking area. 
 Climbing Magazine 

Behind him, water pounded from the spigot, bouncing tiny droplets onto the counter. 
 206 Bones 

There is a spigot in it, and you can try the quality afterwards. 
 The People of the Mist 

Then there's the Asian financial hub's role as a spigot for capital movement. 
 Reuters 

Haani wound an S-shaped lever and water gushed from a spigot. 
 Geomancer (Well of Echoes) 

Could you guys wrench that money spigot a bit more to the right? 
 Private Sector 

I tripped over the string an' it pulled the spigot open. 
 Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle 

All I have to do is draw it from an ad hoc spigot. 
 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th... 

I did so, the Doctor drawing it from the spigot into a pail. 
 The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales 

I found a rusty spigot along the wall, with a bucket beside it. 
 Eve 

Then he coiled the hose onto its holder on the spigot. 
 Crucifixion river 

spigot

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United States of America

Common

United Kingdom

Less common

Meanings of spigot in English