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单词 spicket
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spicketn.1

Forms: Also Middle English spyket, spykkett, 1500s spicat, 1600s, Scottish1700s–1800s spiket.
Etymology: Alteration of spigot n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspicket.
Now chiefly dialect and U.S.
1.
a. A spigot.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > spigot
dossil1297
spigot1383
spicket14..
tap-staff14..
faucetc1430
dottle1440
tap-tree1483
tapon1543
forcehead1598
spiddock1629
spile1707
vent-peg1707
pale1726
spile-pega1825
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 573 Clipsedra, a spyket.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626 Clepsidra, spykkett.
1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. C3v Into the vault the Iaylor downe doth creepe, Where how he deales with bung-holes and with spickets I cannot tell.
1626 J. Horsey Trav. in S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 991 [There were] strange portraytures..made artificially of Sugar..with spickets in their bellies fille some with sucke.
a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 16 His Eyes look like two Tunnels, his Nose like a Fausset with the Spicket out.
1739 Brome in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 119 He..ran his fingers into the orifices, like spickets, of the arteries, and then knockt for his surgeon.
1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 350 Put them into a large vessel of wood or stone, with a spicket in it.
1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. IV. 72 The spicket I perceived out of the cask, and the liquor running about.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxxi I guess I'll whip out of the bung while he's a lookin arter the spicket.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 169 The Indian..took a glass and turned on the spicket.
attributive.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xvi. 256 Where his miscarriage is the more..scandalous; insomuch, as that he is chiaus'd by two spicket-wenches.
b. In allusive use.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
1615 J. Day Festivals 94 They..spend their Birth right, and Patrimonies vpon the Spicket.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 102 The Brethren of the Spicket..lay downe for a fundamentall, that there is no living without Liquids.
2. A water-tap.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap
tapc1050
faucet?a1400
cockc1483
spigot1530
vice1530
water cock1585
quill1611
spicket1888
1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journey 60 The waiter pointed to a small spicket and a handkerchief of a towel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

spicketn.2

Forms: Also spickard.
Etymology: perhaps a transferred use of spicket n.1
dialect. Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. 1729.)
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1729 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 573 The Owners [in Essex] are sure to choose for their own Use the..fattest [crocus] Roots, but above all, they reject the longish pointed ones, which they call Spickets or Spickards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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