four-way cock (English, noun)
expansion: four-way cock (plural four-way cocks)
Senses:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and for various other purposes.
Forms:
form: four-way cocks
tags: plural