stopcock

See also: stop cock

English

Etymology

stop +‎ cock

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑpkɑk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒpkɒk/

Noun

stopcock (plural stopcocks)

1. A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe.
2. (British) A main shutoff for water to a home from a municipal supply. Usually these valves exist in pairs, one outside the property boundary and one inside the property boundary.

   If you have a burst pipe, turn the water off at the stopcock.

Hypernyms

• cock, shutoff

Coordinate terms

• bibcock, petcock, seacock, sillcock

Translations

valve, tap or faucet

• Arabic: مِحْبَس m (miḥbas)
• Bulgarian: спирателен кран m (spiratelen kran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旋塞 (zh) (xuánsāi)

• Finnish: sulkuventtiili, sulkuhana
• French: robinet d’arrêt m
• German: Absperrhahn (de) m
• Hebrew: בֶּרֶז (he) m (berez), שַׁסְתוֹם (he) m (shastom)
• Italian: rubinetto di arresto m
• Japanese: 元栓 (motosen)
• Maori: katirere, katiwai
• Spanish: llave de cierre f
• Thai: ลูกบิด (th) (lûuk-bìt)

main shutoff

• Finnish: pääventtiili
• French: robinet d’arrêt m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stoppekran m or f

  Nynorsk: stoppekran f

• Portuguese: torneira de segurança f

Verb

stopcock (third-person singular simple present stopcocks, present participle stopcocking, simple past and past participle stopcocked)

1. (transitive) To control the gas pressure in (an oil well) by keeping the well closed in and the gas confined except during set intervals when the oil is flowed or pumped.