spicket
/ˈspɪ.kət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Blackberry Wine: Take your berries when full ripe, put them into a vessel of wood or stone, with a spicket in it, and pour upon them as much boiling water as will just appear at the top of them."
- "Well in the meantime the battle raged on. Milk Toast had Dirty Dan down and the spicket on his barrel wide open and all that soapy water was running all over Dan's body."
Etymology
From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Old French [Term?].