Dodd shouted as he saw a water-tank, and a receptacle above it with a water-cock. ❋ Various (N/A)
_ -- By immediately shutting off both cocks, the water-cock first, then I would open the blow-out cock (at the bottom of the gauge-glass) and keep it open to the finish, and commence unscrewing the nuts, clearing them of any bits of india-rubber that adhered to them, also the sockets. ❋ W. J. Connor (N/A)
In the pride of being a housewife she loved every detail -- the brocade armchair with the weak back, even the brass water-cock on the hot-water reservoir, when she had become familiar with it by trying to scour it to brilliance. ❋ Unknown (1920)
I had turned on the steam - heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not. ❋ Unknown (1919)
I had turned on the steam heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
I had turned on the steam-heater after placing a tin under the leaky water-cock -- for perhaps you do not know that water will leak where steam will not. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
Every water-cock on the great tower was subject to her. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
In order to get at a water-cock on the starboard side, the ship had been heeled down on her larboard side, by running her guns over until the lower deck port-sills were just level with the water. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
It had been found the morning before that this water-cock, which was about three feet below the water line, was out of order and must be repaired. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
But it in quite simple to have carbide present in large excess of the water introduced when the whole generator is contemplated, and yet to have the water always in chemical excess in the desired manner; because to realise the advantages of having water in excess, it is only necessary to subdivide the total charge of carbide into a number of separate charges which are each so small that more than sufficient water to decompose and flood one of them is permitted to enter every time the feed mechanism comes into play, or (in a non-automatic apparatus) every time the water-cock is opened; so arranging the charges that each one is protected from the water till its predecessor, or its predecessor, have been wholly decomposed. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)
And in the event of the water-cock being choked while the steam-cock was clear the consequence would be equally dangerous, for the water that was in the glass before the stoppage occurred would remain in it, for the stoppage would not allow it to drop down into the boiler again; so there it would remain, and when the stoker came round to look at his boiler, unless he happened to notice that no movement of the water was visible, he would pass on without further ado, and remain in total ignorance of his danger. ❋ W. J. Connor (N/A)
The foreman came off from the dock-yard, and stated that it was necessary that the ship should be careened over to port sufficiently to raise the mouth of the pipe -- which went through the ship's timbers below -- clean out of the water, that they might work at it; so, between seven and eight o'clock on that morning, the whole of the larboard guns were run out as far as they could be, and of course the larboard lower deck ports were open; the starboard guns were also run in amidships, and secured by the tackles; the shifting over of this great weight of metal brought the larboard lower deck port-cills just level with the water; the men were then able to get at the mouth of the pipe to the water-cock on the starboard side, as it was clean out of water, and for about an hour they were working away hard at it. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
The foreman came off from the dockyard, and stated that it was necessary that the ship should be careened over to port sufficiently to raise the mouth of the pipe -- which went through the ship's timbers below -- clean out of the water, that they might work at it; so, between seven and eight o'clock on that morning, the whole of the larboard guns were run out as far as they could be, and of course the larboard lower deck ports were open; the starboard guns were also run in amidships, and secured by the tackles; the shifting over of this great weight of metal brought the larboard lower deck port-cills just level with the water; the men were then able to get at the mouth of the pipe to the water-cock on the starboard side, as it was clean out of water, and for about an hour they were working away hard at it. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
"Well, you see, messmates, the first lieutenant had been washing the decks on the morning before, and the carpenter had been ordered to let the water in, when it was found that the water-cock, which was about three feet below the water-line, was out of order, and it was necessary that it should be repaired. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
