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fire engine
[ fahyuhr en-juhn ]
noun
- a vehicle equipped for firefighting, now usually a motor truck having a motor-driven pump for shooting water or chemical solutions at high pressure.
fire engine
noun
- a heavy road vehicle that carries firefighters and firefighting equipment to a fire
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fire engine1
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Example Sentences
Indeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.
Now that the fire-engine house was surrounded by the marines, he was certain nobody could escape.
There was Ann in her fire-engine Oscar de la Renta, straight out of the First Lady playbook.
But this fall specifically, a fire-engine coif is proving to be the must-have for the fashion pack.
New precautions against fire were taken in Newport by the formation of firewards, and a fire engine was sent for from England.
While he sat there some bells began ringing furiously and a steam fire engine rushed by.
In the following year Braithwaite and Ericsson in London brought out the first portable fire-engine.
Suddenly there was a clang-clang of gongs, and all traffic drew to one side to allow the passage of a flying motor fire-engine.
The Steam Fire-Engine is still another form of portable engine.
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