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2. Should You Cover Your Outdoor Faucets In The Winter? An ... - AOL

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   DIY Outdoor Faucet Covers If you don’t have the time or funds to buy a cover before a deep freeze, Tuscaloosa Emergency Management Agency suggests a quick DIY method involving rags or t-shirts ...

3. Tap (valve) - Wikipedia

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   Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture. [1] Silcock (and sillcock), same as "spigot", referring to a "cock" (as in stopcock and petcock) that penetrates a foundation sill. Bib (bibcock, and hose bib or hosebibb), usually a freeze-resistant version of a "spigot".

4. Spigot (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   A spigot (or "tap" or "faucet") is a valve for controlling the release of a gas or liquid. Spigot may also refer to: AT-4 Spigot, NATO reporting name for 9K111 Fagot, a Russian anti-tank missile; Spigot, the male end of a pipe designed to be connected with a spigot and socket joint; Spigot, a keyed post in the center of some vacuum tube bases

5. Spile - Wikipedia

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   A spigot (or "spile") extracting syrup from a maple tree.. Like many such older terms, the word spile has other local meanings. For example: A wooden stake or fence post.; A tapper, [5] an implement used to tap any sort of tree (e.g., for birch sap, maple syrup, rubber tapping, or palm wine from a toddy palm).

6. Meander (art) - Wikipedia

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   Meanders are common decorative elements in Greek and Roman art. In ancient Greece they appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric period onward. The design is common to the present-day in classicizing architecture, and is adopted frequently as a decorative motif for borders for many ...

7. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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   Cover the floors with tar or brown paper since plaster can stain or be hard to remove from subflooring plywood. Run hoses and extension cords and set up job lights. Cover all seams with meshtape as well as any large gaps around outlets caused by poor roto-zip work. Gouge out any bubble in the wallboard caused by broken sheetrock under the paper ...

8. Manhole cover - Wikipedia

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   A round manhole cover of a given diameter has a smaller surface area than a square cover of the same width, thus less material is needed to cast the manhole cover, meaning lower cost. The bearing surfaces of manhole frames and covers are machined to assure flatness and prevent them from becoming dislodged by traffic.

9. Gargoyle - Wikipedia

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   Gargoyles of Notre-Dame de Paris Dragon-headed gargoyle of the Tallinn Town Hall, Estonia Gargoyle of the Vasa Chapel at Wawel in Kraków, Poland. In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle (/ ˈ ɡ ɑːr ɡ ɔɪ l /) is a carved or formed grotesque [1]: 6–8 with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it ...