| 单词 | spigot and socket piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspigot and socket piece 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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