turncock

How To Use turncock In A Sentence

• Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout. Through Russia
• The little man was left in the centre of the room, his deep eyes smouldering upon the backs of the retreating members, his thumb and finger raised to the turncock of the metre. The Island Pharisees
• On ‘water day’ the turncock of a particular neighbourhood would open the stopcock.
• Fortunately the church door was close at hand, but before he entered he was aware that the turncock had joined the throng with three bright instruments over his shoulder, as if his services were likely to be wanted toward the end. Witness to the Deed
• One knew at a glance that if the turncock was to come, see, and overcome the reluctance of the allotted cock-to-be-turned, the water would burst out at every pore of the service-pipes in that house, except the taps; and would know also that the adept who came to soften their hearts and handles would have to go back for his tools, and would be a very long time away. Somehow Good
• In each street turncocks controlled the water, which ran for as little as one to two hours a day two or three times a week in the early days.
• They watched him oil a turncock sunk in the ground between two furze-bushes. Stalky & Co.
• Some old-stagers stuck to the ancient companies, and to the faces of familiar turncocks.
• I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock who lingers in one of them, and whom I suspect of a turn for poetry; the rather as he looks out of temper when he gives the fire-plug a disparaging wrench with that large tuning-fork of his which would wear out the shoulder of his coat, but for a precautionary piece of inlaid leather. The Uncommercial Traveller
• It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841