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.