Some young lady's pet curate. --F. Harrison.
[1913 Webster]
{Pet cock}. [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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