Usually means: Valve for controlling liquid flow.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word stopcock:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stopcock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stopcock: Merriam-Webster
  3. stopcock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stopcock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stopcock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stopcock: Vocabulary.com
  7. stopcock: Wordnik
  8. stopcock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stopcock: Wiktionary
  10. stopcock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stopcock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stopcock: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stopcock: Dictionary.com
  14. Stopcock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Stopcock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. stopcock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. stopcock: Rhymezone
  18. Stopcock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. stopcock: FreeDictionary.org
  20. stopcock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stopcock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stopcock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stopcock: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stopcock: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (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.

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