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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A valve regulated by the position of a free-floating ball that moves in response to fluid or mechanical pressure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A valve formed by a globe resting upon a concave circular seat. It is lifted by the upward pressure of the fluid, and descends by gravity when that pressure is removed. See ball-cock.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mach.) a contrivance by which a ball, placed in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball

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