garden hose
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See also: gardenhose
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Noun
garden hose (countable and uncountable, plural garden hoses)
- (uncountable) A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.
- 1890 July 13, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “The Grand Opera House”, in The Deseret weekly, volume 41, page 82:
- Mayor Scott also made himself useful, and, with a number of others, so manipulated a garden hose that the flames were prevented from spreading to the electric light buildings, which were only a few feet distant.
- 2005, Richard Burks Verrone, Laura M. Calkins, Voices from Vietnam, David & Charles, page 172:
- I'm not sure what that reason was either, but he needed about 500 feet of garden hose. I said, "Okay, I'll trade you the garden hose for two pallets of sandbags. And I need them trucked over there to Qua Viet."
- (countable) A length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.
Usage notes
- Typical lengths of garden hoses in North America are 50 or 100 feet, and are usually 1/2 inch in diameter or occasionally 5/8 inch in diameter for applications requiring heavier flow such as commercial power washing.
Synonyms
- (UK, South Africa, Southern US) hosepipe
Translations
type of hose
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length of hose
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