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▪ I. ˈspicket1 Now chiefly dial. and U.S.
Also 5 spyket, spykkett, 6 spicat, 7, Sc. 8–9 spiket.
[Alteration of spigot n.]
1. A spigot.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 573 Clipsedra, a spyket. 14..Metr. Voc. Ibid. 626 Clepsidra, spykkett. 1591Harsey Trav. (Hakl.) 252 [There were] som wines and spicats in their bellies to draw at. 1619Pasquil's Palm (1877) 148 Into the vault the Iaylor down doth creep, Where how he deals with bung-holes and with spickets I cannot tell. a1635Randolph Poems (1652) 16 His Eyes look like two Tunnels, his Nose like a Fausset with the Spicket out. 1739Brome in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 119 He..ran his fingers into the orifices, like spickets, of the arteries, and then knockt for his surgeon. 1747–96H. Glasse Cookery xxii. 343 Put them into a large vessel of wood or stone, with a spicket in it. 1804A. Duncan Marin. Chron. IV. 72 The spicket I perceived out of the cask, and the liquor running about. 1836Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxxi, I guess I'll whip out of the bung while he's a lookin arter the spicket. 1893Leland Mem. II. 169 The Indian..took a glass and turned on the spicket.
attrib.1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xvi. 256 Where his miscarriage is the more..scandalous; insomuch, as that he is chiaus'd by two spicket-wenches.
b. In allusive use.
1615Day Festivals iv. 94 They..spend their Birthright and Patrimonies upon the Spicket. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vi. 102 The Brethren of the Spicket..lay downe for a fundamentall, that there is no living without Liquids.
2. A water-tap.
1888J. & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journ. 60 The waiter pointed to a small spicket and a handkerchief of a towel.
▪ II. † spicket2 dial. Obs.—1
Also spickard.
[perh. a transferred use of prec.]
(See quot.)
1728Phil. Trans. XXXV. 573 The Owners [in Essex] are sure to choose for their own Use the..fattest [crocus] Roots, but above all, they reject the longish pointed ones, which they call Spickets or Spickards. |