单词 | fire crew |
释义 | > as lemmasfire crew fire crew n. (a) (with plural or singular agreement) (the members of) the crew on a steam ship responsible for stoking the furnace (now chiefly historical); (b) a team of firefighters. ΚΠ 1886 Engin. News 16 133/1 It also did away with the necessity of a fire crew.., a circumstance which any one who had watched stokers in the hold of a coal-burning ship..would appreciate. 1901 Hamilton (Ohio) Democrat 31 Jan. 5/1 The Second ward fire crew was summoned..and the furnace was soon flooded, quenching the flames. 2013 C. Gerteis & C. S. George Japan since 1945 xiii. 234 Fire crew who fed coal to the great boilers in the bowels of the ship, were Korean and Chinese colonials. 2014 S. Yorks. Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. Fire crews spent more than three hours tackling a blaze which ripped across a farmer's field. < as lemmas |
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