turncock

Elvis cranked the turncock and swung open the bunker door.

She gave it to him, and he tied it over the neck of a wooden turncock.

Rex reached up for the rusted turncock.

They were all concentrating on the manipulation of the turncock that obviously regulated the flow of the powdered ore through the pipes.

Above the chipped enamel shower-tray a single hosepipe thrust obscenely from the wall, beneath a rusted turncock.

'Spin the frigging turncock and fast!'

David Albert Michael Lay, Water Services Turncock, Windsor Castle.

The men had been virtually immersed in liquid mud created by the water flow, for it would have taken the turncock half an hour of walking in a tight circle to close the main.

Down goes the shepherd to chapel, gives out as he's a persecuted saint, and says he hopes the heart of the turncock as cut the water off, 'll be softened, and turned in the right vay, but he rayther thinks he's booked for somethin' uncomfortable.