hydrant
an upright pipe with a spout, nozzle, or other outlet, usually in the street, for drawing water from a main or service pipe, especially for fighting fires.
a water faucet.
Origin of hydrant
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How to use hydrant in a sentence
They tapped nearby hydrants, and in search of additional water headed to the foot of Wall Street to break through the East River’s ice and pump more.
Then, the community of people asking questions expanded like the spray from an open fire hydrant.
The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery's Murder | Janell Ross/Brunswick, Ga. | November 30, 2021 | TimeThe station pulled the video off its website, but one cannot put the water back in the hydrant.
The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery's Murder | Janell Ross/Brunswick, Ga. | November 30, 2021 | TimeNon-natural stimuli in this case would be parametric stimuli like oriented bars, while natural would include both the savanna as well as something human-made like a hydrant.
Are We Wired to Be Outside? - Issue 92: Frontiers | Grigori Guitchounts | November 11, 2020 | NautilusSome punk city kids crack open a fire hydrant and are playing in its spray.
The water deepened quickly and was almost covering a fire hydrant within 100 yards.
In Stuyvesant Town, Evidence of Hurricane Sandy’s Wrath | Matthew DeLuca | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Fire hydrant: Starting on all fours, I lifted my leg like a dog relieving himself, and then extended that leg behind me.
Shoeless, he ran into the car and barreled out of the driveway before careening off a fire hydrant and then smashing into a tree.
Yes, you will still have TMZ on your front lawn (or camped out by the broken fire hydrant).
He stopped at a hydrant and washed the mud off the elephants' legs and gave 'em an extra feed.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyAt the hydrant on one side stood a fire-engine blowing off its useless steam.
Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 | VariousIf waterworks are handy, connect the boiler with a hydrant and after filling the boiler, let it receive the hydrant pressure.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. StephensonHe crossed the fire lines, found his way to the engine captain near the main hydrant.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseThe fat seemed to make them thirsty; they had to go to the hydrant to wash it down with cold water.
Bird Lore, Volume I--1899 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for hydrant
/ (ˈhaɪdrənt) /
an outlet from a water main, usually consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached, from which water can be tapped for fighting fires: See also fire hydrant
Origin of hydrant
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