| 单词 | fire-bucket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire-bucket fire-bucket n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > bucket fire-bucket1585 siphon1688 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 279 Incendiarij siphones..Fire buckets. 1724 Daily Post 6 Jan. The said Watch-Engine is so made, that it extinguishes Fire at the first breaking out, tho' no Person is then present, only by hanging it up as a Fire-Bucket in the middle of a Warehouse, Shop or Room. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvii. 325 Rows of fire-buckets for dashing out a conflagration in its first spark. 1918 Fire Prevention & Fire Fighting on Farm (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 904) 12 Buckets of water are kept in fixed places to be used for fire only... The usefulness of the fire bucket depends upon its being instantly available. 2013 N. Hodgson Beyond Stained Glass Window 174 Sand-filled fire-buckets used to douse a fire. < as lemmas |
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