spigot
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Middle French [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈspɪ.ɡət/, /ˈspɪ.kət/[1]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Homophone: spicket (occasionally)
- Rhymes: -ɪɡət, -ɪkɪt
Noun edit
spigot (plural spigots)
- A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- The plug of a faucet, tap or cock.
- (US, especially Appalachia) A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 323:
- I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
a pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask
the plug of a faucet or cock
faucet — see tap
Verb edit
spigot (third-person singular simple present spigots, present participle spigoting or spigotting, simple past and past participle spigoted or spigotted)
- (transitive) To block with a spigot.
- 2002, Phoenix Project: Environmental Impact Statement, pages 2–31:
- Once a beach has been formed, spigoting would focus on directing the reclaim water pool toward the reclaim barge pumps.
- (transitive) To insert (a spigot).
- 1956, The Automobile Engineer, volume 46, page 118:
- Location of the cylinders is, of course, effected by spigoting their lower ends into the holes in the crankcase. Similarly, the cylinder heads are located by spigoting the upper ends of the cylinders into them.
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From dialectal Middle French espigeot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spigot (plural spigottes)
- wooden stopper; wooden spigot
Descendants edit
References edit
- “spigot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.