nozzle

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In one graphic, a smiling father and son wash a car over a headline that reads, “Make Every Drop Count: Use a Self-Closing Hose Nozzle When Watering Outdoors.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

They do so in agreeable places, “for the same reason that the American Association of Hose and Nozzle Manufacturers has to hold all its important meetings in Las Vegas,” observed Mr O’Rourke, a humorist.

From Economist • May 17, 2012

So she offered explanation in the words: "Nozzle come off—nozzle come off!"

From Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers by Anonymous

Nozzle, noz′l, n. a little nose: the snout: the extremity of anything: the open end of a pipe or tube, as of a bellows, &c.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Nozzle Sizes.—The size of opening through the nozzle is determined according to the thickness and kind of metal being handled.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)