pinchcock

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English

Etymology

From pinch +‎ cock.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pinchcock (plural pinchcocks)

  1. A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of fluid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pinchcock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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