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sprinkler|ˈsprɪŋklə(r)|
[f. sprinkle v.1]
1. a. A vessel or other device used for sprinkling water or other liquid.
1535Coverdale Jer. lii. 18 They toke awaye also the Cauldrons, shouels,..sprinklers, spones & all the brasen vessell. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iii. 192 They are the Sprinklers, the Water-Pots of Heaven. 1874H. H. Cole Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus. 137 Bottle, or Rose-water Sprinkler. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2292/1 A glass sprinkler found in Pompeii. 1882Rep. Prec. Metals U.S. 152 Cold water..is forced through a fine sprinkler and falls upon them in a spray.
b. A machine or vehicle used for this purpose, esp. one for watering the roadway.
1879Comstock Rep. Cotton Ins. 252 Robinson's combined sprinkler and duster for destruction of the cotton worm. 1893Scribner's Mag. June 708/1 In freezing weather the sprinkler is run [to make a frozen surface]. 1895R. W. Chambers King in Yellow, Rue Barrée ii, The watering carts and sprinklers spread freshness over the Boulevard.
c. An apparatus for extinguishing fires.
1887Pall Mall G. 4 June 12/1. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 18 Oct. 7/1 When the Manchester cotton-spinners..first had sprinklers installed in their premises.
2. A brush for sprinkling holy water.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 376 The holie cleansing water.., which they did sprinckle with a sprinckler made of hysope. 1656W. Dugard tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. 303 To sprinkle with Holy-water (taken out of a pot with a sprinkler). 1698Motteux Quix. (1733) I. 42 The House⁓keeper..return'd immediately with a Holy-water pot and a Sprinkler. 1816[see holy water 2]. 1862Borrow Wild Wales vi, Then drawing forth his sprinkler, he flung the holy water in the faces of the king and his people. 1896tr. Huysman's En Route viii. 106 Dom Etienne took the sprinkler which a priest handed him.
3. a. A person who sprinkles.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 150 The Merissœans or Merists, which were (as the name importeth) sprinklers of their holy-water. 1818in Todd. 1843Tizard Brewing Index 517 Sprinklers of malt, a majority. [Ibid. 68 Completely contradicting the assertion of the non-sprinklers.]
b. One who baptizes by sprinkling as opposed to immersion; an adherent of this practice.
1895M. Mather Idylls 321 (E.D.D.), Betty were a dipper an' I were a sprinkler. 1896Ch. Times 1 May 505/1 Our reputation as ‘the sprinklers’ has been maintained..by the chaplains of the English congregations.
4. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1 c) sprinkler installation, sprinkler system; sprinkler irrigation = spray irrigation s.v. spray n.2 3 c.
1935Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXIX. 164 Sprinkler installation for air defence. 1967Guardian 24 May 1/6 The store had no sprinkler installation.
1950O. W. Israelsen Irrigation Princ. & Pract. (ed. 2) vi. 142 Sprinkler irrigation systems may be divided into three groups according to the purpose for which they are used. 1955McColly & Martin Introd. Agric. Engin. xxxvii. 531 Horizontal centrifugal pumps and turbine pumps are the common types used for sprinkler irrigation, as they give a steady flow of water. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Mar. 175/1 There are sophisticated forms of sprinkler irrigation..whereby the optimal nutrient content is fed to the crops at just the right moment.
1930Engineering 28 Feb. 279/2 Sprinkler systems in various store rooms. 1973Scottish Sunday Express 5 Aug. 1/2 Why was no sprinkler system installed in the Isle of Man Summerland entertainment centre in which 51 people died in one of Britain's worst-ever fires?
Hence ˈsprinklered a., of or pertaining to a sprinkler system; spec. (chiefly N. Amer.), provided with or watered by a sprinkler system.
1930F. E. Wolfe Princ. Property Insurance ix. 151 In Great Britain the principle is commonly applied to plural risks, to sprinklered and other fire-resisting risks. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b11/6 (Advt.), 16,500 sq. ft. on second floor, vinyl tile floors, fully sprinklered, oil and steam heated,..air-conditioned offices. 1975J. Montague Slow Dance 48 Our true Catholic world, a graveyard..water sprinklered grass, collapsing wreaths. 1978N.Y. Times 29 Mar. d12/6 (Advt.), Over 50,000 sq. ft. now available in prime industrial location Complete burglar & fire alarm systems... Totally sprinklered. |