Hose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.
  • n. Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.
  • n. Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.
  • n. A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.
  • v. To water, drench, or wash with a hose: hosed down the deck; hosed off the dog.
  • v. Slang To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm: hosed the enemy trooper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid, pl. hoses.
  • n. A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights, pl. hose or hosen.
  • v. To water or spray with a hose.
  • v. To provide with hose (garment)
  • v. To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
  • v. To trick or deceive.
  • v. To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
  • n. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
  • n. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Originally, a garment covering the legs and the waist, worn by men.
  • In present use (as either singular or plural), covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; stockings. Short stockings, not reaching to the knee, are distinctively called half-hose or socks, or, rarely, ankle-hose.
  • A flexible tube or pipe for conveying a fluid to a required point, as water for the service of a fire-engine, for watering a garden, etc.
  • The hollow part of a spade, or other tool of a like kind, which receives the end of the shaft or handle.
  • In printing, formerly, upright iron rods, which connected the spindle of the old hand-press with its platen, and regulated its movement.
  • The sheaf of corn.
  • The outer covering of straw or corn.
  • To clothe with hose; clothe.
  • To play upon with a hose; drench with water from a hose.
  • n. In entomology, a peculiar organ or gland at the base of the tarsal claws of the Psocidæ.
  • n. The wide trousers formerly worn by seamen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
  • n. man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
  • n. a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
  • v. water with a hose
  • Equivalent
    hose cart    hose truck   
    Verb Form
    hosed    hoses    hosing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    garment    water    irrigate   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    hose clamp    hose clip    hose down   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stocking    tubing    pump    breech    trouser    pipe    tube    shirt    scarf    cap