fosset

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English

Noun

fosset (plural fossets)

  1. Obsolete form of faucet.
    • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

Latin

Verb

fosset

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fossō

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

fosset

  1. inflection of fosse:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle