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▪ I. faucet, n.1|ˈfɔːsɪt|
Forms: 5 faucett, fawcet(t, 5–6 fawset, 6 faucete, -set, (fasset, faulsed, -set), 7 faucit, -sset, 7–8 fosset, (forset), 4– faucet.
[a. F. fausset (in sense 1); of unknown etymology.]
†1. A peg or spigot to stop the vent-hole in a cask or in a tap; a vent-peg. Obs.
c1430Wyclif's Job. xxxii. 19 (MS. V.) Lo! my wombe is as must with out faucet [1388 spigot] ether a ventyng that brekith newe vessels. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme, To giue it [ayre] when the fosset is halfe out. 1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady ii. i, With a faucet or peg. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. v. 266 Give it Vent..with a Hole made with a Gimblet; into which put a Peg or Faucet.
2. A tap for drawing liquor from a barrel, etc. Now dial. and U.S.
Formerly more fully spigot and faucet, denoting an old form of tap, still used in some parts of England, consisting of a straight wooden tube, one end of which is tapering to be driven into a hole in the barrel, while the other end is closed by a peg or screw. The peg or screw when loosened allows the liquor to flow out through a hole in the under side of the tube. Properly, the spigot seems to have been the tube, and the faucet the peg or screw (as still in the Sheffield dialect); but in some examples the senses are reversed, and each of the words has been used for the entire apparatus. In the U.S. faucet is now the ordinary word for a tap of any kind.
a1400Morte Arth. 205 Vernage..In faucetez of fyne golde. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 77 He asketh allowaunce for tubbys, treyes, and faucettes. 1468Paston Lett. No. 549 II. 268 For claretts and fawcetts vi d. 1530Palsgr. 740/1 Our men be to thrustye to tarye tyll their drinke be drawen with a faulsed. 1549Chaloner Erasmus on Folly G iv b, He founde a backe faulset set in his wyne vessell. 1630Randolph Aristippus (1652) 16 Thi Nose like a Fausset with the Spicket out. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) I. 285 In spite of his Spigot and Faucet, The States⁓man must go to old Nick. 1780Von Troil Iceland 190 A hole in the rock, which is shut with a spigot and faucet. 1881Miss Laffan in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 379 This was furnished with a half-dozen faucets, which could be turned on at will. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Faucet, a wooden tap-screw for a barrel. 1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 751 The dripping of the water from the faucet in the sink sounded sharp and distinct.
fig.1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie A ij. To Lady Talbot, It is..more commendable to learne to suppresse thy tongue, then to seeke the fasset to set abroch the same. 1640Brome Sparagus Gard. iii. iv. Wks. 1873 III. 160 In every man there are all humours to him that can find their faussets.
†b. A contemptuous appellation for a tapster.
1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. ii, My chayre, you false faucet you. Ibid. ii. iii, Speake in thy faith of a faucet.
3. Used as a synonym of adjutage.
a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 407 The contrivance of the fosset or ajutage.
4. U.S. (See quot.)
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Faucet, the enlarged end of a pipe to receive the spigot end of the next section.
5. attrib. and Comb., as faucet-hole, faucet-seller. Also U.S. faucet-joint (see quot.).
1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 79 Hearing a cause betweene an Orendge wife and a Forset-seller. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. iii. 108/1 Tap is the Forset hole made in the head of the Barrel to draw the Liquor out. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Faucet-joint, 1. An expansion-joint for uniting two parts of a straight metallic pipe, which is exposed to great variations of temperature. 2. One form of breech-loader in which the rear of the bore is exposed by the turning of a perforated plug.
▪ II. † ˈfaucet, ˈfauset, n.2 Obs.
[Corruption of facet.]
= facet. Also applied to a faceted stone. Comb. faucet-cut, cut like a facetted stone.
1684R. Walker Nat. Exper. 131 The fausets (i.e.) those [diamonds] that are ground of their own Octoedral Figure, seldom or never failed. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2028/4 Lost..a little Drap containing one large Stone..and three little Faucets weighing about two Grains and half each. 1712Ibid. 5055/3 The 2 Side-drops faucet-cut. |