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pet-cock(dictionary)
sea cock(medicine)
cock-up(dictionary)
cock-up(dictionary)
bib-cock(dictionary)
cock(4)(dictionary)
cock(1)(dictionary)
cock(2)(dictionary)
cock(3)(dictionary)

Public debt (finance) and sea cock (medicine)


Public debt (finance)


Issues of Debt by governments to compensate for a lack of tax revenues.





sea cock (medicine)


sea cock


1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.

2. <zoology> The black-bellied plover. A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).

Source: Websters Dictionary