Ballcock (Noun)
Meaning
Floating ball that controls level in a water tank.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The float rises with the water level until the ballcock shuts off the flow from the refill valve.
- Water fills the cistern until the float rises enough to shut off the ballcock, thus preventing overfill.
- Inside the cistern there's usually a simple device known as a ballcock, a floating valve.
- He pulled off the broken float to see how to mend or get at the seized-up old ballcock beneath it.
- By setting the position of the arm the on and off point for the ballcock could be finely tuned to achieve just the right amount of flow to top off a hot tub in any setting.