stopcock
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The image immediately above shows the location of a gas stopcock cover.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2014
If you have sufficient reserve in your vacuum calculations after counting the pressure increases from hose lengths and fittings, adding a stopcock or two is helpful.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the secondary filter has a drain, drain it, close the stopcock, refill it with fresh fuel and refit it to the flange.
From Time Magazine Archive
Similarly, a stopcock on the output side of the filter could keep spills to a minimum.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then took a globe of copper fitted with pump and stopcock, and discovered that he could pump out air as well as water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
