try cock
English
Noun
try cock (plural try cocks)
- A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for try cock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)