Definition of "water-cock" [water-cock]

• The kora, Gallicrex cristata, a large dark gallinule of India, Ceylon, Java, and islands eastward, horned with a red caruncle on top of the head. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Dodd shouted as he saw a water-tank, and a receptacle above it with a water-cock."
• "_ -- By immediately shutting off both cocks, the water-cock first, then I would open the blow-out cock (at the bottom of the gauge-glass) and keep it open to the finish, and commence unscrewing the nuts, clearing them of any bits of india-rubber that adhered to them, also the sockets."
• "In the pride of being a housewife she loved every detail -- the brocade armchair with the weak back, even the brass water-cock on the hot-water reservoir, when she had become familiar with it by trying to scour it to brilliance."