Associations to the word «Ballcock»

Wiktionary

BALLCOCK, noun. A floating sphere, attached to a lever, that controls the level of liquid in a cistern

Dictionary definition

BALLCOCK, noun. Floating ball that controls level in a water tank.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope