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Definition: FOUR-WAY COCK |
FOUR-WAY COCK1. A cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various other purposes. In the illustration, a leads to the upper end of a steam engine cylinder, and b to the lower end; c is the steam pipe, and d the exhaust pipe. |
Crosswords: FOUR-WAY COCK |
| English words defined with "FOUR-WAY COCK": Four-way ♦ Rotary valve. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-f-k-o-o-r-u-w-y" | |
-5 letters: cracky, croaky, cuckoo, curacy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4F 55 52 2D 57 41 59      43 4F 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001111 01010101 01010010 00101101 01010111 01000001 01011001 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F O U R - W A Y   C O C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004F 0055 0052 002D 0057 0041 0059      0043 004F 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4049555215573559237493745 |
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