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Definition of Hosepipes
1. hosepipe [n] - See also: hosepipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosepipes
Literary usage of Hosepipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway: Including the by George S. Measom (1861)
"Patent India Rubber hosepipes and Tubings for Acids, «»•. • Patent India Rubber and
... G. ANGUS & CO., Manufacturers of Stretched Leather Be hosepipes, &c. ..."
2. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "The ...Industrial arts (1884)
"To insure both hosepipes being charged with an equal pressure, a small groove (B)
in one oí the ... When the same pressure exists in both hosepipes the ball ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"The gate, also of iron, is composed of hosepipes crossed by a honk, a ladder, a
torch, an axe, a trumpet, and a tormentor—all of them firemen's ..."
4. The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905 by Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1911)
"... evening three men were set to watch with large hosepipes attached to the main,
but somehow or other the connection was mysteriously cut and the windows ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the engines or hydrants in hosepipes, which arc made either of leather fastened
with brass or copper rivets, or of canvas (woven from flax) which has ..."
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