stopcocks

The city has made so many colossal blunders, including having a major bridge sunk in 1990 when someone accidental left the stopcocks open (that bridge, ironically, had been named after the State Highway director on whose watch was built the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which tore itself apart famously).

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These were connected by means of pipes furnished with stopcocks.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Ross furnished copper kettles, a few stopcocks and valves, copper pipe and vats made from barrels sawn in half.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Ross furnished copper kettles, a few stopcocks and valves, copper pipe and vats made from barrels sawn in half.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Instead of using the sinks in the house, they'd had the cooper make them two half-barrels on legs, with stopcocks as in a wine barrel in the bottoms for drain holes.

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

I helped her close all the stopcocks I could find and made sure she had switched off her water heaters, and in return she let me use her telephone to look for another roof.

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

I helped her close all the stopcocks I could find and made sure she had switched off her water heaters, and in return she let me use her telephone to look for another roof.

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

It knelt beside the three 0-tanks which had been tied beneath the buggy with the borrowed nylon line, and it opened the stopcocks of each in turn.

Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975

All afternoon the two girls wandered up and down woodland paths between thickets of rhododendrons in bloom, each with a label, with water piped underneath each woodland path projecting in stopcocks here and there for watering the specimens.

The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955

At first the chlorine dissolves in the water, but soon the water in the one tube becomes saturated with it, and if the stopcocks are left open until this is the case, and are then closed, it will be seen that the two gases are set free in equal volumes.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson