spigot

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  1. noun A faucet. See Regional Note at andiron.
  2. noun A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
  3. noun The vent plug of a cask.

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  • They finished with some fluid from a leaning beerbarrel tree; someone had kindly provided it with a spigot, and there were some mugwumps nearby with pretty mugs. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • And turning off the spigot is about as easy as turning around one of those tankers. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • This will be a tiny spigot, and those judges are going to be trying to figure out who is worthy and who is not, who might look more dangerous because of class, skin color, or ethnicity. —  Stop the Drug War (DRCNet) - raising awareness of the consequences of prohibition -- news and activism supporting sensible reform
  • In addition to turning on the money spigot, the federal government was also encouraging lenders to make high-risk loans, and for the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to buy them up, securitize them and sell them into the derivatives market. —  QandO
  • Among the recipients of this vast financial spigot were the people who eventually created al-Queda.
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  1. Middle English, perhaps from Old French *espigot, diminutive of Old Provençal espiga, ear of grain, from Latin spīca.

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  1. Early modern English also spiggol, spiggott, spiggotte, spygotte, spygote, from Middle English spigot, spygot, spygott, speget; obsolete or dial. also spicket, from Middle English spykket, Spykette; apparently from Irish Gaelic spiocaid, a spigot (= Welsh ysbigod, a spigot, spindle), diminutive of Irish spice = Welsh ysbig, a spike, from Latin spica, spicus, a point, spike: see spike. The Celtic forms may be from the English
 

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