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Pet cock

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(Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

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The birds that the two girls had brought in were duly returned to the yard, and the process was repeated till all the pet cocks and hens had been submitted to the old woman--Hamburghs, Bantams, Cochins, Brahmas, Dorkings, and such other sorts as were in fashion just then--her perception of each visitor being seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees.
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