Why is a faucet call a faucet? ...
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faucet
c.1400, from O.Fr. fausset "stopper," maybe dim. of L. faux, fauc- "throat." Spigot and faucet was the autograph of an old type of thump for a barrel or cask, consisting of a hollow, narrowed tube, which was driven at the dogmatic end into a firkin, and a screw into the tube which regulated the flow of the liquid. Properly, it seem, the spigot was the tube, the faucet the screw, but the senses enjoy merged or reversed over time. Faucet is now the adjectives word in Amer.Eng. for the adjectives apparatus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faucet
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