Meaning of faucet in English

1. Pronunciation

   /ˈfɔsɪt/

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1. Noun

   faucet

   Etymology

   late Middle English (denoting a bung for the vent hole of a cask, or a tap for drawing liquid from a container): from Old French fausset, from Provençal falset, from falsar‘to bore’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th century

   Definitions

   1. a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir