nozzle

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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nozzle (ˈnɒz^əl)

—n
1.	a projecting pipe or spout from which fluid is discharged
2.	Also called: propelling nozzle a pipe or duct, esp in a jet engine or rocket, that directs the effluent and accelerates or diffuses the flow to generate thrust
3.	a socket, such as the part of a candlestick that holds the candle

[C17 nosle, nosel, diminutive of nose]

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nozzle

mid-15c., noselle "socket on a candlestick," dim. of nose (see nose). Meaning "small spout" first recorded 1683.

Example sentences

Mean flow rate for each nozzle and pressure combination.

She intends this to be something of a bombshell: the smoking gun in the form of

a spray nozzle, as it were.

There he was, repeatedly coming up out of the depths to catch the thrashing

hose in his mouth near its nozzle.

The adjacent hall bath has a tub with a hand-held shower nozzle.

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"One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no."

-William Gass

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