How To Use Spigot In A Sentence

  • Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles — and spigots and faucets, in danger still from the same association? — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • He also had a cutting blade on the edge behind the tip to cut the hole, and the steel projection parallel with the spigot shaft was sharpened on its edge to smooth the cut hole as it penetrated the wood.
  • Kenyan pottery collectives now produce narrow-mouthed, spigot-equipped versions of traditional clay pots.
  • Hank had hooked up some hoses together using a spigot on the far side of the barn.
  • You see, there is more to a pub or a bar than what is poured out of a bottle or a beer spigot.
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  • His invention serves a variety of uses, one of which is as a self-boring barrel spigot.
  • The spigot, which up to this time had run only "emptyings," was now giving out the clear juice of the wine-vat. The Under Dog
  • He pointed out what he called the doggie bar, a halfmoon-shaped tiled trough with a silver spigot that provided fresh water for the expensive dogs whose owners bought them Chanel collars and Gucci dog beds. Willow
  • This article discusses twenty-four inventions for self-boring barrel spigots that I found in the U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent database.
  • With a spigot and carefully fit top and screen, wooden wine barrels and recycled food-grade plastic barrels also can be made into water catchment devices.
  • I have done some plumbing, replacing outdoor spigots and sweating them back together.
  • Better-engineered spigots prevent air from entering the bag when you fill your glass - the bag deflates like a balloon - so the wine stays fresh.
  • The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
  • To add flair, a wall-mounted spigot was set in a rectangular mirror flanked by halogen sconces.
  • A. To remove the washer, unplug the machine, turn off both water faucets and disconnect the water hoses from the faucets/spigots.
  • When the party's over, the vessels revert to soaking tubs (supplied by hot- and cold-water spigots nearby).
  • This addition can be as simple as a wall spigot dripping musically into a trough banked with pots of bright flowers.
  • I have water spigots on the side of my house - I don't expect that just because they are not locked shut that people should be able to come up and use whatever they want.
  • Remove the faucet handles, escutcheons, shower heads, and spigots.
  • In most of the designs, the tool is rotated to cut the hole and insert the spigot into the barrel in a single operation.
  • But in colder parts of the country, unless you have frost-proof spigots, you'll still need to drain the pipes to prevent them from freezing over the winter.
  • Some of what I was there to buy cleaning agents, a spigot were innocent enough, but among the goods I finally laid on his table were five more packets of champagne yeast and a proofing hydrometer, which instead of measuring the specific gravity of sugar in water, measures the density of alcohol and gives you a percentage. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • They liked to fill her birdbath, but they didn't always remember to turn off the spigot. LADY BE GOOD
  • Lamb immediately went for the spigot down the fence from the basil, Roma tomatoes and crookneck squash she and her 4-year-old daughter planted in the spring. Some residents object to water limits in Montgomery, Prince George's counties
  • The Saudis are building cash reserves in case they find it necessary to open up the spigots and drive prices down, to teach not only Russia, but possibly also Iraq, a lesson.
  • When I close the spigot and turn it back on, everything's OK, until the spigot remains closed for several hours.
  • The bit had longitudinal movement via an internal rack and pinion, with a knob on the engaging gear protruding through the spigot wall outside the barrel.
  • They liked to fill her birdbath, but they didn't always remember to turn off the spigot. LADY BE GOOD
  • ‘Thanks, dad,’ he said as the spigot soaked him wet.
  • The liquid entrance to the spigot is placed well back on the shaft.
  • A triangular flange was cast integral with and at the end of the spigot where the spout turned downward.
  • Each household is encouraged to use a new redesigned clay water pot with a narrow opening, lid and spigot that reduce the risk of recontamination.
  • But it turned off one of the two traditional spigots for subsidies to finance research.
  • After messing up our foreign policy, he went on to the World Bank where he presided over one of the great calamities of foreign aid, which was this freeflow of money to what are called kleptocracies, these terrible dictatorships that just swallowed up money and McNamara just kept the spigot open. Fools' Names, Fools' Faces
  • The cart, disguised as a kerosene peddler's wagon, was suspicious because it had no spigot to dispense fuel.
  • The ‘money spigot’ is rapidly closing and many, many companies will not survive the unfolding credit crunch.
  • Silver spigots sprouting out of the walls at even intervals.
  • She needed the odd household item as well: vacuum cleaner filters, weather stripping, caulk, some additional insulation for the outside spigots, and that sort of thing.
  • The beer spigots are turned off and the party's over.
  • He eliminated the traditional valve on the spigot and instead used a sliding bit as the gate.
  • They're not sure today's bout of investor angst warrants an opening of the monetary spigots.
  • A pump in each pond recirculates water through a filter; a float hooked to a water line and spigot automatically adjusts the water level of each.
  • I have located two additional self-boring barrel spigots since my article was published in September 2001.
  • The chorus calling for the Fed to open its money spigots further has become deafening.
  • A spigot projecting from the otherwise cylindrical charge would have been used to locate it accurately on the catapult.
  • With indoor space enough to accommodate little more than a beer and wine bar, a rotating spigot and some of the most delectable rotisserie chickens this side of the Rio Grande, the former gas station transformed into Cajun-Latino grillery has seating that spills graciously into its driveway. The Minnesota Daily - mndaily.com
  • Ending water fluoridation is as easy as turning off a spigot. Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Health Hazards of Water Fluoridation (VIDEO)
  • Now that prices are kicking booty, let's crank open the oil spigots and make up for lost time!
  • By grasping this projection, the cellarman could slide the bit back and forth, opening and closing the spigot.
  • Finally, most of the water is stripped off the surface when the thread leaves the exit spigot, helping the spider to avoid water loss and making its thread even tougher.
  • Luckily, the broken pipe section was to a spigot that isn't used anymore anyway, so, in the end, we just hacksawed off the broken section, capped it, and called it good. Dirty Stuff
  • The spigot has a cast brass spout, ceramic-disk cartridges, and coded red-blue lever handles.
  • Open the spigot and run water through the gravel.
  • Turn off the water to the spigot - there must be a valve inside somewhere - and convince the neighbors that the dumpster area must be locked.
  • Better-engineered spigots prevent air from entering the bag when you fill your glass - the bag deflates like a balloon - so the wine stays fresh.
  • No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot. The Black Buccaneer
  • Finally, I found some hand-blown bubbled-glass feeders from Mexico, with elegant red glass flowers as the spigots for the hummers' beaks.
  • Given the corrosive nature of money in politics and how it corrodes our democratic foundation, it is important to limit the flow of the special interest spigot or at least create more opportunities for regular people to compete through public financing. Edward Headington: Pledging Allegiance to Reforming Our System: Vote Yes on Measure H
  • Six spinnerets with different types of spigots and a specialised spinning organ called the cribellum.
  • The residents shared a clothesline, an outhouse, and a single spigot - the lone source of water.
  • He ran a 1/2-inch-diameter feeder line from a spigot outside his house to the closest gutter downspout.
  • Beyond the bedchamber was a bathchamber with a tub carved out of an oblong marble block, and with two spigots, both of shimmering bronze. Darkness
  • On one surface of the plinth is a spigot and a cup, and underneath a drip-stone, where thirsty dogs can drink. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • We brought our own jugs and crocks to take the juice home in, and we'd fill them at the spigot on the holding tank.
  • The urinals were large basins with no privacy; and the shower was a large hole in the wall with four community spigots.
  • When the malt has been sufficiently mashed, the wort is drawn off by the spigot, and it will be found that the eighteen gallons of water have only yielded about thirteen gallons of wort, and sometimes not so much. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • I turned on the spigot at the side of the house and filled up his plastic basin.
  • The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
  • A pump stood in the corner, and a basin with unwashed dishes waiting for washing was beneath the spigot.
  • To remove the washer, unplug the machine, turn off both water faucets and disconnect the water hoses from the faucets / spigots.
  • The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
  • He ran a 1/2-inch-diameter feeder line from a spigot outside his house to the closest gutter downspout.
  • Point to young rockers: they are not living in a mansion with a limo in the bedroom with gold-plated champagne spigots in the backseat Jacuzzi; nor do they have a stable of foxy groupies waiting in the van.
  • He doused a towel under the spigot and returned to his wife's side, lying beside her and gently wiping her forehead. MINUTES TO BURN
  • When a doctor suggests implanting a ‘shunt’ to ease future operations, the patient is reluctant to have a spigot installed in his head.
  • Those spinnerets are covered with tiny spigots that can produce all manner of silk—thick, thin, sticky and nonsticky, sheets of silk, you name it. DRAGON GAMES

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