单词 | vent-peg |
释义 | vent-pegn. A small peg for inserting in the vent-hole of a cask; a spile. ΘΚΠ 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 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 573 Leaving your Vent-peg always open palls it [sc. March-beer]. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 574 If once you pull out the Vent-peg, to draw a Quantity at once. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvii. 150 Mind you have a Vent-peg at the Top of the Vessel. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vi. 209 If on drawing out the vent-peg of the cask the liquor spurts up with force. 1845 C. Dickens Chimes iv. 148 Pulling out the vent-peg of the table-beer. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2703/2 The vent-peg [of the vent-cock] consists of a tubular, threaded stem, which may be screwed into a cask. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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