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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A faucet the valve of which is opened and shut by the moving of the faucet itself upon the supply-pipe in a horizontal rotary direction. When the faucet is swung inward above a basin or other receptacle, the valve opens; when it is swung back the valve closes.
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