spigotn.
/ˈspɪɡət/, U.S. /ˈspɪɡət/ 1.
a. A small wooden peg or pin used to stop the vent-hole of a barrel or cask; a vent-peg; a similar peg inserted into and controlling the opening or tube of a faucet and used to regulate the flow of liquor.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > spigot
dossil1297
spigot1383
spicket14..
tap-staff14..
faucetc1430
dottle1440
tap-tree1483
tapon1543
forcehead1598
spiddock1629
spile1707
vent-peg1707
pale1726
spile-pega1825
α.
β. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oivv/1 A Spiggotte, epistonium.1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B4 Nothing but spiggots and faussets of discarded emptie barrels.1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick x. ii. 256 Pull out the Spigget, that the hot Water may run out.1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 462 They gather it [petroleum] up,..and put it in a barrel set on one end, which hath a spiggot just at the bottom.1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) III. 185 Sometimes the Weight of the Wort forces out the Spiggot.1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 340 A small barrel of water at the top, furnished with a spiggot.1383–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 593 In 3 duodenis de Spigotes empt. pro butelaria,..3s. 4d.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 724 Hec clipsidra, a spygotte.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job xxxii. 19 Lo! my wombe is as must with out spigot, ether a ventyng.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469/1 Spygot, clipsidra, ducillus, ductileum.
1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 74 2 dd. spigotts et cannells.
1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 63 Spigotes and facetes, ijd.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 19 O base hungarian wight: wilt yu the spigot [1602 spicket] wield. View more context for this quotation
1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iii. §8 in Anat. Plants 226 When one Atome is admitted into the..hole of another; as a Spigot is into a Fosset.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 221 If a careless servant does not mind to thrust the spigot fast into the barrel, the beer must necessarily run all away.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. ix. 457 We have..wherewithal to keep the spit and the spigot in exercise.
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. ix. 175 A man with a mallet was busily engaged in driving a spigot and faucet to give discreet vent to the liquor within.
1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly viii. 61 Cleg went to the back of the door, where there was a keg with a spigot.
b. figurative. That which controls, lets out, or restrains.Frequently used with reference to speech or language.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun] > means of restraint or restraining force
bridleeOE
bridea1425
restraint1523
aweband1531
bit1546
retentive1580
control1594
curb1613
hank1613
constriction1650
retinue1651
check1661
spigot1780
brake1875
way-chain1884
tab1889
inhibitor1902
check-cord1908
iron maiden1912
inhibition1932
1780 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 402 You must be very serious in what you say about a speech. Do but pull out the spigot and let it run, and nobody can sport a clearer or a sweeter stream.
1830 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 417/1 Something which he called the rudder of Government, but which was rather the spigot of Taxation.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 224 I should find such enemies in the preachers, that I might bung up my spigot.
1900 Lapsley County Pal. Durham 127 Having but a limited control of the spigot of taxation.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap
tapc1050
faucet?a1400
cockc1483
spigot1530
vice1530
water cock1585
quill1611
spicket1888
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 693/2. I ronne, as lycour dothe out of a vessell by a spigot or faulset, whan it ronneth styll after a stynte.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xx. 177 [To have] a little spigott, or quill att the outside of the hole, that by the narrow length of it helpeth in some sort (as it were) to sucke it.
1675 J. Rose Eng. Vineyard 43 Drawing out your must by a spigot at the bottom of your vessel.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Birch-Wine [It] will need neither Stone nor Chip to keep it open, nor Spiggot to direct it to the Recipient.
3. In figurative or allusive use:
a. In various proverbial phrases (see quots.).
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1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xcii. sig. Bviiiv We apply the spygot, tyll tubbe stande a tylte.
1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. Cv The foole was a fidler and knewe scarse a speare from a spigot.
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. v. sig. D3v Memph. Ile teach my wag-halter to know grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii.sig. Zzv/2 To spare at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bung hole.
b. brother of the spigot, knight of the spigot, man of the spigot, son of the spigot, a tapster; a seller of liquor; an alehouse-keeper; hero of the spigot, imp of the spigot, one who indulges in liquor.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 5 ‘What, ho! John Tapster.’ ‘At hand, Will Hostler,’ replied the man of the spiggot.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. viii. 206 When an old song comes across us merry old knights of the spiggot, it runs away with discretion.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 197 Like that renowned hero of the spiggot [Boniface].
1839 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) 309 Under the guidance..of the imp of the spigot, Martin Luther.
4.
a. A plain end of a pipe entering an enlargement (a ‘socket’ or ‘faucet’) of another as a means of forming a joint. Chiefly in attributive phrases, as spigot and faucet joint, spigot and socket piece.
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society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [noun] > specific joints > part of
spigot1797
muff1875
pipe stopa1884
welt1888
overcloak1896
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 55 The joints [of jack-head pumps] may be either spigot and faucet, or hoboy joints run with lead and regulus.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 121/1 Some cocks of the smaller sizes have heretofore been cast with spigot and socket instead of flange outlets.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 121/1 The outlets are generally made with flanges, to which a socket and spigot piece with corresponding flanges are bolted.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 49 Spigot and Faucit, a description of pump joint, in which each pump is cast with a cup or faucit end; the other, or spigot end, being plain, for the purpose of insertion into the cup.
b. An annular projection (as on a cylinder cover or a flange) entering a corresponding depression in the adjacent piece.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > cylinders > parts of
spigot1889
crank-chamber1902
1889 P. N. Hasluck Model Engineer's Handybk. 84 The spigots of the cylinder-covers are also chipped away the same width as the ports.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as spigot-end, spignot-hole.
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1849Spigot end [see sense 4a].
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Bet-well The..strainer placed over the spigot-hole within the mash-tub, to prevent the grains passing through into the wort.
1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 608/2 The..creatures made their escape through the spigot-hole.
C2. † spigot-sucker n. Obsolete one given to drinking or tippling.
spigot-joint n. a spigot and faucet joint.
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society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [noun] > specific joints
spigot-joint1875
thimble-joint1877
welded joint1882
welted joint1888
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2266/1 Spigot (or Faucet) Joint.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pinteur, a tippler, pot-companion, spiggot-sucker.
Derivatives
ˈspigot v. (transitive) (a) to thrust a spigot into (in quots. 1809 at sense 1aα. , 1826 figurative); (b) to insert in the manner of a spigot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > pierce
asnesec880
prickOE
stickOE
through-stitchc1230
threstc1275
rivec1330
dartc1374
gridea1400
tanga1400
prochea1425
launch1460
accloy1543
gag1570
pole1728
spigota1798
assegai1834
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert as a plug, spigot, panel, etc. > insert a spigot into
spigota1798
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert as a plug, spigot, panel, etc.
panel1832
plug1833
impanel1861
tampion1897
spigot1910
a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) II. xiv. 211 But I must obey orders, or he might spigot me, mayhap, as they do in the foot-cavalry.
1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. ix. 308 Did not you nor your father flea the devil alive? did not you spigot him nor singe him?
1910 Automobile Engineering 1911 19/3 Single separate cylinders..are spiggotted deeply into the crankcase.
1954 Automobile Engineer 44 507/2 This cover is spigoted into the housing and bolted to the front wall of the box.
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