brass whats it 2/4/13

[amertrac]

see: http://www.keys-cut.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=230

sure looks like one end is right   bob w.

[Billman49]

MMMMM Spigot..... I guess the following link may help to explain the some of the differences between US and UK Englsih

http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tidbits-and-titbits.html

In the UK spigot can mean a tap (or faucet) as well as the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel - but it can also mean any part of something that fits into a socket of something else, e.g the spigot of a pipe....

What word would you use in the US for the part of a lock that fits into the key????

[rusty]

>the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel

Oddly, the part of something that something else fits into is often the barrel....

So, the key goes in a cylinder, the cylinder goes in a barrel....
(More commonly tho, it goes in a housing, but you can't live in there...)

[Billman49]

We are at cross purposes - for barrel read cask (for liquids such as beer)

Many old padlock keys have a hole in the centre that fits around the 'spigot' in the centre of the lock aperature....

What would you call this???

[amertrac]

KEYHOLE HERE  LOL   BOB W.

[Branson]

I'd call that the pin for a barrel-key lock.

In common usage here, at least, a spigot has to have something come out of it.  This would be definition 2 in the Oxford English Dictionary: "A hollow wooden peg or tube used in drawing off a liquor; a faucet."

Earlier American dictionaries retain the understanding of a peg driven into a cask or barrel.   The online American Heritage Dictionary defines spigot as:

   1 A faucet.
   2 A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
   3 The vent plug of a cask.

In common usage, however, the meaning of a plug, spike, or pin has been lost on this side of the pond.