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spigot

/ˈspɪ.ɡət/

spigot noun: a pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

Noun

spigot (plural spigots)

  1. A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
  2. The plug of a faucet, tap or cock.
  3. (Appalachia, US, especially) A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
    • I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 323

Verb

spigot (third-person singular simple present spigots, present participle spigoting or spigotting, simple past and past participle spigoted or spigotted)

  1. (transitive) To block with a spigot.
    • Once a beach has been formed, spigoting would focus on directing the reclaim water pool toward the reclaim barge pumps.2002, Phoenix Project: Environmental Impact Statement, pages 2–31
  2. (transitive) To insert (a spigot).
    • Location of the cylinders is, of course, effected by spigoting their lower ends into the holes in the crankcase. Similarly, the cylinder heads are located by spigoting the upper ends of the cylinders into them.1956, The Automobile Engineer, volume 46, page 118

spigot meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

spigot in Tamil

ஆப்பு, கழுத்து, கூம்பல், கழுந்து

spigot in Urdu

ٹونٹی, نل

spigot in Bengali

নল, কল

Examples of spigot in a sentence

  • But rhetoric was all we got-turn on Clinton's spigot, and he's all foam, no beer.
  • Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.
  • "Sarch away, squire," said Shackle bluffly, as he placed the mugs on the floor and turned the wooden spigots.

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Forms of spigot

Noun
pluralspigots
alternative form (dialectal)spicket
Verb
third-person singular presentspigots
present participlespigoting
present participlespigotting
past participlespigoted
pastspigoted
past participlespigotted
pastspigotted

Origin of spigot

From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and Middle French espigeot.

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Questions about spigot

What does spigot mean?
Spigot means a pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
What is spigot in Tamil?
Spigot in Tamil is ஆப்பு, கழுத்து, கூம்பல். See Spigot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spigot?
Spigot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce spigot?
Spigot is pronounced /ˈspɪ.ɡət/.
What is the plural of spigot?
The plural of spigot is spigots.

Words near spigot in the dictionary

  1. spignels
  2. Spigner
  3. Spigners
  4. spignet
  5. spignets
  6. spigot
  7. spigot algorithm
  8. spigot algorithms
  9. spigoted
  10. spigoting
  11. spigots

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spigot (page history and authors); spigot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spigot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spigot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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