Fire Hose

Definition: Fire Hose

Fire Hose

Noun

1. A large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.

Crosswords: Fire Hose

You're a lucky, lucky boy 'cause you know why? You get to drink from, the fire hose! (UHF; writing credit: 'Weird Al' Yankovic; Jay Levey)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nfpa 1961 Standard on Fire Hose (reference)

• Standard on Fire Hose, 1992/Nfpa 1961 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting USS Clifton playing a fire hose on the Confederate fire raft, as it drifted past Union ships on the lower Mississippi River on 17 April 1862.Credit: NAVY.

View on the flight deck of USS Lexington (CV-2), at about 1500 hrs. on 8 May 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea. The ship's air group is spotted aft, with Grumman F4F-3 fighters nearest the camera. SBD scout bombers and TBD-1 torpedo planes are parked further aft. Smoke is rising around the after aircraft elevator from fires burning in the hangar. Note fire hose, wheels, propellers, servicing stands and other gear scattered on the flight deck.Credit: NAVY.

Anchored at Naples, Italy, 5 July 1948. She is using a fire hose, aft, to keep over-enthusiastic "bum boat" peddlers away from the ship. This was done in keeping with current directives from both Navy and Italian authorities prohibiting "bum boat" transactions. Photographed from USS Kearsarge (CV-33).Credit: NAVY.

Halftone photograph copied from Medal of Honor, The Navy. Lt. Ricketts was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. He was in charge of a USS Yorktown (CV-5) damage control party that suffered many casualties from a bomb explosion. Despite mortal wounds, Lt. Rickets deployed a fire hose and successfully contained the resulting fire before he died.Credit: NAVY.

Two Chief Petty Officers enjoy a game of "Acey-Deucy" on deck, circa 1904-06. The man at left wears an Ex-Apprentice's "figure-eight knot" badge on his right sleeve. Note coiled fire hose and sewing machine in the background.Credit: NAVY.

Two Chief Petty Officers enjoy a game of "Acey-Deucy" on deck, circa 1904-06. The man at left wears an Ex-Apprentice's "figure-eight knot" badge on his right sleeve. Note coiled fire hose and sewing machine in the background.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "fire hose": unlined fire hose. Additional references.

Albanian

tub për lokalizimin e zjarreve. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пожарникарски маркуч. (various references)

Czech

požární hadice, hasièka hadice. (various references)

Danish

brandslange. (various references)

Dutch

brandspuitslang, brandslang. (various references)

Finnish

paloletku (doughnut). (various references)

French

tuyau pour pompes � incendie, tuyau d'incendie, manche d'incendie, manche � incendie, boyau d'incendie. (various references)

German

Feuerwehrschlauch, Feuerschlauch, Feuerlöschschlauch. (various references)

Greek 

σωλήνας πυροσβεστικής αντλίας, μανίκα (hose), πυροσβεστικός σωλήνας, εύκαμπτος σωλήνας για την κατάσβεση πυρκαϊών. (various references)

Hungarian

tömlő (cyst, hose, hose-pipe, leather bottle, manifold, sac), tűzoltócső. (various references)

Italian

manichetta d'incendio, manichetta antincendio. (various references)

Manx

pioban aile. (various references)

Pig Latin

irefay osehay

Portuguese

mangueira para bombas de incêndio, mangueira de incêndio. (various references)

Romanian

furtun de incendiu. (various references)

Russian 

пожарный рукав (fire-hose), пожарный шланг. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vatrogasno crevo. (various references)

Spanish

manguera para incendios, manguera contraincendios. (various references)

Swedish

brandslang. (various references)

Ukranian 

пожежний рукав. (various references)

Misspellings

"Fire Hose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Firehose. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: firehose.

-1 letter: heifers.

-2 letters: fisher, frisee, heifer, hereof, heroes, hosier, reshoe, sherif, soiree.

-3 letters: erose, feres, fires, fores, frees, fresh, fries, frise, froes, frosh, heirs, heres, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, horse, osier, reefs, reifs, serif, sheer, shier, shire, shoer, shore, siree.

-4 letters: eros, fees, fehs, fere, fire, firs, fish, foes, fore, free, froe, heir, here, hero.

+1 letter: firehoses, firehouse.

+2 letters: firehouses, horseflies, overfished, overfishes, rosefishes.

+3 letters: fisherwomen, foresighted, housewifery, refashioned.

+4 letters: frothinesses.

+5 letters: flexographies, foresightedly, housewiferies, officeholders, surgeonfishes.

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