faucet
/ˈfɔːsɪt/noun
- chiefly N. Amer. a tap〈主北美〉龙头, 旋塞。
词源
late Middle English （denoting a bung for the vent-hole of a cask, or a tap for drawing liquor from a container）： from Old French fausset, from Provençal 'falset', from falsar 'to bore'. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.