fire engine
a vehicle equipped for firefighting, now usually a motor truck having a motor-driven pump for shooting water or chemical solutions at high pressure.
Origin of fire engine
1- See also fire truck (def. 2).
- Compare ladder truck.
Words Nearby fire engine
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How to use fire engine in a sentence
Our Toniebox was pink, but you can select from a spectrum of six choices, including fire engine red, sky blue, grass green, purple, and gray.
Toniebox review: Screen-free entertainment that’s music to kids’ ears | Tony Ware | July 28, 2021 | Popular-ScienceClara Young Kim places her camera tightly to reveal that a fire engine is as battered as it is shiny.
In the galleries: Rejuvenating the obsolete into unconventional art | Mark Jenkins | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s like paying for a fire engine even in years when there’s no fire.
An ambulance and fire engine responded, along with additional police.
After D.C. firefighter shot and wounded on the job, department expresses frustration at violence in city | Peter Hermann | November 24, 2020 | Washington PostIndeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Now that the fire-engine house was surrounded by the marines, he was certain nobody could escape.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was Ann in her fire-engine Oscar de la Renta, straight out of the First Lady playbook.
Valerie Biden Owens Wears Givenchy Bird of Paradise Dress to Democratic National Convention | Isabel Wilkinson | September 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut 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.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneWhile he sat there some bells began ringing furiously and a steam fire engine rushed by.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes | William Perry BrownIn the following year Braithwaite and Ericsson in London brought out the first portable fire-engine.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeSuddenly 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 Daffodil Mystery | Edgar WallaceThe Steam Fire-Engine is still another form of portable engine.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston
British Dictionary definitions for fire engine
a heavy road vehicle that carries firefighters and firefighting equipment to a fire
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