hook-and-ladder company

[hook-uhn-lad-er kuhm-puh-nee]

noun

1. ladder company.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hook-and-ladder company¹

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Example Sentences

It was borrowed from the hook-and-ladder company, which made all its calls in a body, and in two of Kipp and Brown’s stages, hired for the entire day.

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And although he became foreman of a juvenile hook-and-ladder company before he was five, and would not play with girls at all, he had one peculiar feminine weakness.

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The hose-cart, propelled by a pair of stout legs, made a gallant dash down the edge of the garden, followed by the hook-and-ladder company, their equipment just three feet long.

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The last he saw of the cab or of the cabman was near the house of the hook-and-ladder company east of the French Market.

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The alarm-signal rang in the hook-and-ladder company's quarters in North Moore Street, but was either misunderstood or they made a wrong start.

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