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Again, brush on the road's high center flipped open the oil petcock.
The petcock typically has three positions: on, off, and reserve.
A petcock is a small valve used to control the flow of liquid or gas.
Few modern automobiles currently in use have a petcock.
Down to their ears came a sound resembling the escaping of steam through a petcock.
Before starting the engine the petcock is turned to the on position in order to provide gasoline to the fuel delivery system.
His very will was draining away, as though somebody had opened a petcock on his skull.
He poked the wire through the open petcock.
Then he turned the small petcock wheel.
He leaned in quickly and turned a petcock on a copper cylinder like a fire extinguisher.
One crawled in and settled down, and turned the petcock that inflated the cover.
Loosening the petcock, Harry let hot water pour out of the hose into the deep shaft.
I know damned well that when a man gets broiled because the pressures become too much, it's a reasonable petcock to let off steam.
The doctor shut off the petcock.
The heat touched off the Hi-Thrust which burst in a needle flame from the petcock.
Foyle closed the petcock with a wrench.
The petcock of safety, Mr. Matlock, is that those holding the knives watch closely.
Limousines may use a petcock to control fuel flow, since fuel travels several feet farther than on typical automobiles.
He turned the petcock and let gasoline flow to the carburetor, twisted the throttle, checked the chain and the clutch.
Most older motorcycles have a fuel petcock valve mounted on or nearby the fuel tank to control the supply of gasoline.
He soon found the problem - brush he had driven over had opened an oil petcock, causing the oil to leak out.
Somewhere in the cacophonous gearbox of his brain, he heard the hiss of a petcock, blowing off steam.
Foyle opened the drainage petcock in the combustion chamber of the jet and tortuously filled the chamber with fuel by hand.
There is not actually a separate reserve tank: The intake for the petcock has two pipes, one extending higher into the fuel tank than the other.
No longer invisible at the high temperature of live steam, it spat in a white plume from a petcock at the rear of the cylinder.