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fire hose

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noun

a special heavy-duty hose for use in fighting destructive fires.

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Examples from the Web for fire hose

So he will let us turn on the fire-hose from the first, and let off no volleys in the air.
A Tatter of Scarlet|S. R. Crockett
They could sweep the approaches to the fort as a fire-hose flushes a gutter.
With the French in France and Salonika|Richard Harding Davis
A municipality might as well talk about buying its fire-hose after the conflagration has started.
Defenseless America|Hudson Maxim
The pines go right up overhead; a little more and the stream might have played, like a fire-hose, on the Toll House roof.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition|Robert Louis Stevenson

The streets are deluged three times a day with fire-hose, but even that has little effect upon the dust.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 3|Various