2.especially American EnglishAmEDT an outdoortap 室外水龙头
Examples from the Corpus
spigot• This has a spigotbearing the same size as the Range Rover but made of steel and not phosphor bronze.• Then, all of a sudden, like a spigot turned counterclockwise, Bshuts down.• I washed up under a spigot I found out front.• The bath was in the centre of the room, with an old-fashionedbrassspigot.• Children carried pails of water filled from spigots on street corners.• I turned on the spigot at the side of the house and filled up his plasticbasin.• I held him under the spigot and squeezed his chest as the icy water ran over him.• The nearby water spigot became a constantsource of fascination.
Originspigot
(1300-1400) Probably from Latinspica“part of a corn plant where the grain grows”