a. Having, or connected with, three ways, roads, or channels; situated where three ways meet. Three-way cock, valve, one with an inlet and two alternative outlets.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1338/2. His highnesse passing foorth still beyond the place called the Threewaieleet, came to the street named Hwiuetterstreet, that is to say, the chandellors strect.
1603, 1608, 1674–91. [see LEET sb.3].
1633. Ames, Agst. Cerem., II. 325. To have set up Altars of devotion at every three-way-leet.
1838. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 189/2. Five three-way cocks and their appendages.
1834. Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2), 190. This curious extra-vestibular chamber, which may be named the trivia, or ‘three-way’ place.
1888. Lockwood, Dict. Mech. Engineering Terms, Three-way-cock … for diverting the liquid from the inlet branch into two different directions at pleasure.
1907. Installation News, June, 11/2. This necessitates a three-way distribution board.
