Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.
- noun Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.
- noun Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.
- noun A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.
- transitive verb To water, drench, or wash with a hose.
- transitive verb To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm.
- transitive verb To exploit, cheat, or defraud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To clothe with hose; clothe.
- To play upon with a hose; drench with water from a hose.
- noun In entomology, a peculiar organ or gland at the base of the tarsal claws of the Psocidæ.
- noun The wide trousers formerly worn by seamen.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
- noun Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
- noun 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.
- noun a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires.
- noun [U.S.] a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires.
- noun coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end.
- noun a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
flexible tube conveying water or other fluid, pl.hoses . - noun A
stocking -like garment worn on the legs;pantyhose , women'stights , pl. hose orhosen . - verb transitive To water or
spray with a hose. - verb transitive To provide with hose (garment)
- verb transitive To attack and kill somebody, usually using a
firearm . - verb transitive To trick or deceive.
- verb transitive, computing To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
- noun man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
- noun a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
- verb water with a hose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you fast-forward to something like the Death Knight starting experience, our story-telling team has really mastered or refined the art of delivering the story as first-hand gameplay rather than spraying you with the word hose, which is what we did in the past.
Worldofraids News 2009
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Hold a second ..... while I feel bad for someone who has lost their job or whose hose is undrwater, why is it my responsibility as a taxpayer to bailout someone who may hav used poor judgement in buying a home or just had bad luck.
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Had yet another collision leaving the pub. went home quietly and took the garden hose from the back of the house then went to a field track within sight of his mothers house and did the hose from the exhaust to the car window act.
The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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This hedgehog with its green leather hose comes from the quality Waldfreunde collection and were directly imported from Germany.
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Perhaps Ms. Bachmann would allow me to connect a hose from the tailpipe of a car she was sitting in with the windows rolled up while we discuss the dangers of atmospheric imbalance.
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If it happens again, I might try pegging a tarp down over the trap and running hose from the exhaust of my truck and gas him before he gasses me.
A skunk in the trap 2010
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They fell into a tub of cold water on the other side of the machine, which was filled with a hose from the well or the lake.
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I think the hose is lovely, personally, I think it may clash a little in such a “colonial neighbourhood”.
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This hedgehog with its green leather hose comes from the quality Waldfreunde collection and were directly imported from Germany.
Meet the New Toy Story 3 Characters: Chunk and Chatter Telephone | /Film 2010
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He still shirks away in fear when he sees it, though his love for the bouncy balls has helped him overcome — he has to either go past the hose to get the ball or take the ball from the same hand the hose is in.
chained_bear commented on the word hose
Captured at Yorktown, 1100 pair hose (meaning stockings).
October 29, 2007