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Definition of Fire engine

1. Noun. Any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire.

Definition of Fire engine

1. Noun. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply. ¹

2. Noun. Any fire apparatus, such as a fire truck or fire engine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Engine

Literary usage of Fire engine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"Action by the Independent Steam fire engine Company v. Richland Lodge, No. 39, AFM, and others. From an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint, ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"It was certainly a wise regulation of the government, compelling all ships to carry a fire engine, but the generality of those used fur the purpose are so ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"and gasoline at 25 cents per gal., the cost of icing a fire stream with the motor fire engine is four times that with a steamer. ..."

4. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 edited by Thomas D. O'Rourke (1993)
"Engine 41 was moved to Divisadero Street to escape the heat from the escalating fire. Engine 41 withdrew to Divisadero Street, ripping the hose still ..."

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