hot watern.

Brit.

/ˌhɒt ˈwɔːtə/, U.S.

/ˌhɑt ˈwɔdər/

Forms: see hot adj. and water n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., water n.

Etymology: < hot adj. + water n. In sense 2, so called on account of the burning sensation which the alcohol produces in the drinker's throat.

a. Water at a high temperature, either naturally as in a hot spring, or artificially heated for cookery, washing, or other purposes; (in later use) spec. heated water available on tap (in a home, hotel, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > hot

hot waterOE

OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxxix. 94 Nim eac meldon ða wyrt; gewyrc to duste swiðe smale; do in hat wæter; syle drincan.

1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 77 Wasch hem wel in a feyre vessel & in fayre hot water.

a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 24 Sethe hem in hot water.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 73 Hoot watir, þouȝ it aswage akþe to þe prickynge of a senewe, is most greuous.

1526 Treasure of Pore Men f. xxix Take Beteigne Sauaigne and drye them and make pouder ther of & let the seke drynke ther of in fayre hote water or in mylke.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 524 A certaine herb called Chia, of which they..drinke with hot water.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 142 There is scarce any house which hath not also in the yard a stew, wherein they bath themselves with hot water.

1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xi Take scalding hot water, and..with Newcastle soap, beat and work it up to a clear lather.

1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Sept. (1972) 54 The Hot water which I quaff here [sc. Bath]..rather renders my ideas vapid than bright.

1832 W. Irving Moor's Legacy in Alhambra (1875) 161 Pedrillo Pedrugo..put a basin of hot water under his chin, and began to mollify his beard with his fingers.

1890 A. G. Hewitt Cape Cookery 51 Pour some hot water over them [sc. raisins], and let them stand for a day or two.

1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) vii. 181 The sodium and potassium salts of these acids are known as soaps, which are readily soluble in hot water.

1975 ‘D. Jordan’ Black Acct. xxxii. 163 There was a safari lodge with hot water and white sheets.

2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City iii. vii. 100 Fuel cells use an electrochemical process..to convert chemical energy into electricity and hot water.

b. figurative. colloquial. A state of discomfort, difficulty, or painful uncertainty; disgrace, trouble. Chiefly in in hot water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits

needfulnessc1350

kankedortc1374

pressc1375

needfultya1382

briguec1400

brikec1400

plightc1400

taking?c1425

partyc1440

distrait1477

brakea1529

hot water1537

strait1544

extremes1547

pickle1562

praemunire1595

lock1598

angustiae1653

difficulty1667

scrape1709

premune1758

hole1760

Queer Street1811

warm water1813

strift1815

fix1816

plisky1818

snapper1818

amplush1827

false position1830

bind1851

jackpot1887

tight1896

squeeze1905

jam1914

1537 J. Husee Let. 23 June in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/100) f. 123 If they be to be hadd I wyll haue of them, or it shall cost me hott water.

1765 in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 125 I believe the present set [of ministers] might stay in if they chose; but we are kept, to use the modern phrase, in hot water.

1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 108 If you won't dress, there's no need to keep the poor boy in hot water for nothing.

1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 82 This latter business had kept me in continual hot water—writing & writing, & fretting & fretting.

1820 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1977) VII. 73 You forget that you keep me in hot water till I know whether they are arrived—or, if I must have the bore of recopying.

1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. vi. 109 You will find it much pleasanter to be on good terms with your captain than to be eternally in hot water.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 10 In everlasting hot water, as the most incorrigible scapegrace for ten miles round.

1902 Menorah Jan. 38 Chaikel Fishel was..always in hot water from babyhood to manhood.

1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill i. vi. 107 I must get home in double quick time if we're not going to get into hot water with Mother Sprigg.

1992 Daily Star 16 Jan. 2/5 [He]..might briefly wish for a return to his carefree bachelor days, which could land him in hot water.

2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Nov. l3/3 Silvio Berlusconi found himself in hot water for sneering at a German member of the European Parliament.

2. In plural. Alcoholic spirits obtained by distillation; spirituous liquors. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun]

water of life?c1450

burning watera1475

watera1475

aqua vitae1542

spirit1559

strong water1615

hot waters1616

spirituous liquor1659

spirit1663

fire1707

tape1725

strunt1786

hard stuff1789

firewater1799

fool's water1815

fool water1837

spirituous liquor1842

timber-doodle1842

lightning1858

1616 G. Goodman Fall of Man (new ed.) 352 We, that are now falne in this last period of times, we are now growne to that faintnesse, that hot waters, and strong drinkes, were neuer so much vsed.

1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money iii. ii. 29 She fears neither God, Man, nor the Devil; she got it with drinking Brandies and Hot Waters in the Indies, Sir.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 27 The havoc which a long course of hacney-ship, and hot waters, must have made of her constitution.

1789 B. Moseley Treat. Trop. Dis. (ed. 2) 322 Hot waters and spirits, treacle and mithridate, were the only kind of cordials found to be useful.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. x. 397 The distillers prepared crude spirit and passed it on to the rectifiers, who added herbs and spices and redistilled it to provide the finished ‘hot waters’.

1991 C. A. Wilson Banquetting Stuffe ii. 15 There were sweet Southern European wines..and there were also some of the newly fashionable ‘hot waters’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as hot water bath, hot water bill, etc.

ΚΠ

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The hot water bathes, heretofore adorned, and neighboured with magnificent building.

1636 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 106 One hot water bottle.

a1722 J. Quincy tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians London (1727) 37 Let the sugar be melted in a hot Water Bath.

1820 T. H. Bayly Rough Sketches of Bath (ed. 5) 45 Did some philosophic analysis draw Her component degrees from some hot-water spa?

1855 E. C. Gaskell Lizzie Leigh & Other Tales 163 Pack up for each his portion of the dainty dish, and send it separately, in hot-water trays.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 422 He turned to explore the hot-water dishes on the sideboard.

1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 48 In spite of the hot-water-fountain on the counter it was..cooler in here.

1956 G. Taylor Silver ix. 191 Hot-water jugs were set on classical tripod legs with a spirit lamp between.

2002 Build It Nov. 129/1 A..solar collector will dramatically reduce your hot water bills and help the environment.

C2.

hot water bag n. chiefly U.S. a bag of rubber or a similar material, used as a hot-water bottle; cf. hot-water bottle n.

ΚΠ

1864 Lancet 17 Dec. 694/2 (heading) Ice and hot-water bags. These bags are intended for the convenient application either of heat or cold to the spine.

1880 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 20 Jan. An indian rubber hot water bag which she possesses is the envy and admiration of the entire colony.

1942 G. Heyer Penhallow ix. 123 Bearing the hot-water bag without which Faith never, summer or winter, went to bed.

2002 M. J. Gerber Botticelli Blue Skies 110 I heat the water that's still in the teapot and fill the hot water bag with it. We get under the covers with the rubber bag between us.

hot water crust n. a crisp, water-resistant type of pastry used for hand-raised savoury pies (cf. hot water paste n.).

ΚΠ

1912 E. Herisse Art of Pastry & Confectionery Making 85 Hot water crust for raised pies (heading). Take one pound of flour, four ounces of butter or lard, one teaspoonful of salt, and a good gill of water or milk.

1970 A. L. Simon & R. Howe Dict. Gastron. 290/2 Hot-water crust is a stiff dough moulded to make a filling of meat or game.

2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Meat Bk. xiv. 444 I thought it was going to be terribly hard, with its unfamiliar pastry (the hot water crust) and liquid stock that has to be poured into the cavity to make the jelly.

hot water cupboard n. an airing cupboard, usually containing a hot water cylinder.

ΚΠ

1898 W. Graham Great House of Castleton 158 Patricia clasped her hands behind her back, and leant against the door of the hot-water cupboard with a pensive air.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 575/1 In almost all houses the hot-water cupboard was used for airing clothes.

2006 S. Summer Garden by Moon 33 To start seeds such as tomatoes and peppers early sow them in a small seed tray and place them in your hot water cupboard at new moon.

hot water cylinder n. originally British a cylindrical hot water tank; spec. one which contains a heating element and supplies hot water for a building, etc.

ΚΠ

1832 Reg. Arts & Jrnl. Patent Inventions 7 58 These cloths may be conveniently kept in readiness in a hot closet..or on the hot water cylinders used for garden hothouses, and for large rooms.

1925 Times 7 Apr. (Housing & Building Suppl.) p. iv/3 ‘Circulating’ boilers, heated by gas or gas-coke, through which water is continually circulating to the hot-water cylinder..so that there is a constant supply of hot water to all taps in the house.

2007 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Farming section) 12 On a sunny day water entering the hot water cylinders was already at 70 degrees, meaning less electricity was being used to heat it to the required 85° C.

hot water paste n. a type of pastry made by melting the fat in hot water before mixing with the flour.

ΚΠ

1818 L. E. Ude French Cook (ed. 5) 351 Hot Water Paste... This paste does not taste so nice as the other, but you may work it with greater facility, and it is not liable to so many accidents.

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 332 Hot-water paste for raised pies—that is, pies baked without dishes.

1993 Food Prepar. & Cooking 177 Lard is the rendered fat of the pig. It is used for savoury pastes such as hot water paste.

hot-water pipe n. a pipe carrying hot water, esp. in the heating system of a building.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat

sidewaya1387

caliduct1624

floor-pipe1691

stovepipe1691

trill1707

flue1715

hot-water pipe1744

riser1876

flow-pipe1904

1744 D. Stephenson Med. made to Agree i. 5 Upon turning open the Cock of the hot Water Pipe..the Bathing Vessel will be immediately filled to the same Height as before with hot Water.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxviii. 274 The hot-water pipes that trail themselves all over the house..fail to supply the fires' deficiencies.

1912 M. Beerbohm Christmas Garland 26 The faint yet heavy fragrance exhaled from the hot-water pipes.

2004 Field Sept. 126/1 A lean-to vine house heated with an elaborate system of hot water pipes fed from a coal-fired boiler.

hot water tank n. a tank for storing hot water; spec. such a tank which heats and supplies water for a building, etc.

ΚΠ

1847 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 17 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) A new and practical method of producing uniform Bottom Heat [in a garden hothouse] from Hot Water Tanks.

1917 L. E. Robinson Domest. Archit. xiii. 232 The most common device, besides the regular hot water tank and coils, for supplying hot water to a residence, is the gas heater.

1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. (Easy Ways to Green Home Suppl.) 6/2 Insulate your hot water tank (use a jacket at least 80mm thick) and lag pipes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hot water
释义	hot watern. Brit. /ˌhɒt ˈwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˌhɑt ˈwɔdər/ Forms: see hot adj. and water n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., water n. Etymology: < hot adj. + water n. In sense 2, so called on account of the burning sensation which the alcohol produces in the drinker's throat. 1. a. Water at a high temperature, either naturally as in a hot spring, or artificially heated for cookery, washing, or other purposes; (in later use) spec. heated water available on tap (in a home, hotel, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > hot hot waterOE OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxxix. 94 Nim eac meldon ða wyrt; gewyrc to duste swiðe smale; do in hat wæter; syle drincan. 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 77 Wasch hem wel in a feyre vessel & in fayre hot water. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 24 Sethe hem in hot water. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 73 Hoot watir, þouȝ it aswage akþe to þe prickynge of a senewe, is most greuous. 1526 Treasure of Pore Men f. xxix Take Beteigne Sauaigne and drye them and make pouder ther of & let the seke drynke ther of in fayre hote water or in mylke. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 524 A certaine herb called Chia, of which they..drinke with hot water. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 142 There is scarce any house which hath not also in the yard a stew, wherein they bath themselves with hot water. 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xi Take scalding hot water, and..with Newcastle soap, beat and work it up to a clear lather. 1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Sept. (1972) 54 The Hot water which I quaff here [sc. Bath]..rather renders my ideas vapid than bright. 1832 W. Irving Moor's Legacy in Alhambra (1875) 161 Pedrillo Pedrugo..put a basin of hot water under his chin, and began to mollify his beard with his fingers. 1890 A. G. Hewitt Cape Cookery 51 Pour some hot water over them [sc. raisins], and let them stand for a day or two. 1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) vii. 181 The sodium and potassium salts of these acids are known as soaps, which are readily soluble in hot water. 1975 ‘D. Jordan’ Black Acct. xxxii. 163 There was a safari lodge with hot water and white sheets. 2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City iii. vii. 100 Fuel cells use an electrochemical process..to convert chemical energy into electricity and hot water. b. figurative. colloquial. A state of discomfort, difficulty, or painful uncertainty; disgrace, trouble. Chiefly in in hot water. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits needfulnessc1350 kankedortc1374 pressc1375 needfultya1382 briguec1400 brikec1400 plightc1400 taking?c1425 partyc1440 distrait1477 brakea1529 hot water1537 strait1544 extremes1547 pickle1562 praemunire1595 lock1598 angustiae1653 difficulty1667 scrape1709 premune1758 hole1760 Queer Street1811 warm water1813 strift1815 fix1816 plisky1818 snapper1818 amplush1827 false position1830 bind1851 jackpot1887 tight1896 squeeze1905 jam1914 1537 J. Husee Let. 23 June in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/100) f. 123 If they be to be hadd I wyll haue of them, or it shall cost me hott water. 1765 in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 125 I believe the present set [of ministers] might stay in if they chose; but we are kept, to use the modern phrase, in hot water. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 108 If you won't dress, there's no need to keep the poor boy in hot water for nothing. 1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 82 This latter business had kept me in continual hot water—writing & writing, & fretting & fretting. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1977) VII. 73 You forget that you keep me in hot water till I know whether they are arrived—or, if I must have the bore of recopying. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. vi. 109 You will find it much pleasanter to be on good terms with your captain than to be eternally in hot water. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 10 In everlasting hot water, as the most incorrigible scapegrace for ten miles round. 1902 Menorah Jan. 38 Chaikel Fishel was..always in hot water from babyhood to manhood. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill i. vi. 107 I must get home in double quick time if we're not going to get into hot water with Mother Sprigg. 1992 Daily Star 16 Jan. 2/5 [He]..might briefly wish for a return to his carefree bachelor days, which could land him in hot water. 2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Nov. l3/3 Silvio Berlusconi found himself in hot water for sneering at a German member of the European Parliament. 2. In plural. Alcoholic spirits obtained by distillation; spirituous liquors. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] water of life?c1450 burning watera1475 watera1475 aqua vitae1542 spirit1559 strong water1615 hot waters1616 spirituous liquor1659 spirit1663 fire1707 tape1725 strunt1786 hard stuff1789 firewater1799 fool's water1815 fool water1837 spirituous liquor1842 timber-doodle1842 lightning1858 1616 G. Goodman Fall of Man (new ed.) 352 We, that are now falne in this last period of times, we are now growne to that faintnesse, that hot waters, and strong drinkes, were neuer so much vsed. 1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money iii. ii. 29 She fears neither God, Man, nor the Devil; she got it with drinking Brandies and Hot Waters in the Indies, Sir. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 27 The havoc which a long course of hacney-ship, and hot waters, must have made of her constitution. 1789 B. Moseley Treat. Trop. Dis. (ed. 2) 322 Hot waters and spirits, treacle and mithridate, were the only kind of cordials found to be useful. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. x. 397 The distillers prepared crude spirit and passed it on to the rectifiers, who added herbs and spices and redistilled it to provide the finished ‘hot waters’. 1991 C. A. Wilson Banquetting Stuffe ii. 15 There were sweet Southern European wines..and there were also some of the newly fashionable ‘hot waters’. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as hot water bath, hot water bill, etc. ΚΠ 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The hot water bathes, heretofore adorned, and neighboured with magnificent building. 1636 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 106 One hot water bottle. a1722 J. Quincy tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians London (1727) 37 Let the sugar be melted in a hot Water Bath. 1820 T. H. Bayly Rough Sketches of Bath (ed. 5) 45 Did some philosophic analysis draw Her component degrees from some hot-water spa? 1855 E. C. Gaskell Lizzie Leigh & Other Tales 163 Pack up for each his portion of the dainty dish, and send it separately, in hot-water trays. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 422 He turned to explore the hot-water dishes on the sideboard. 1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 48 In spite of the hot-water-fountain on the counter it was..cooler in here. 1956 G. Taylor Silver ix. 191 Hot-water jugs were set on classical tripod legs with a spirit lamp between. 2002 Build It Nov. 129/1 A..solar collector will dramatically reduce your hot water bills and help the environment. C2. hot water bag n. chiefly U.S. a bag of rubber or a similar material, used as a hot-water bottle; cf. hot-water bottle n. ΚΠ 1864 Lancet 17 Dec. 694/2 (heading) Ice and hot-water bags. These bags are intended for the convenient application either of heat or cold to the spine. 1880 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 20 Jan. An indian rubber hot water bag which she possesses is the envy and admiration of the entire colony. 1942 G. Heyer Penhallow ix. 123 Bearing the hot-water bag without which Faith never, summer or winter, went to bed. 2002 M. J. Gerber Botticelli Blue Skies 110 I heat the water that's still in the teapot and fill the hot water bag with it. We get under the covers with the rubber bag between us. hot water crust n. a crisp, water-resistant type of pastry used for hand-raised savoury pies (cf. hot water paste n.). ΚΠ 1912 E. Herisse Art of Pastry & Confectionery Making 85 Hot water crust for raised pies (heading). Take one pound of flour, four ounces of butter or lard, one teaspoonful of salt, and a good gill of water or milk. 1970 A. L. Simon & R. Howe Dict. Gastron. 290/2 Hot-water crust is a stiff dough moulded to make a filling of meat or game. 2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Meat Bk. xiv. 444 I thought it was going to be terribly hard, with its unfamiliar pastry (the hot water crust) and liquid stock that has to be poured into the cavity to make the jelly. hot water cupboard n. an airing cupboard, usually containing a hot water cylinder. ΚΠ 1898 W. Graham Great House of Castleton 158 Patricia clasped her hands behind her back, and leant against the door of the hot-water cupboard with a pensive air. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 575/1 In almost all houses the hot-water cupboard was used for airing clothes. 2006 S. Summer Garden by Moon 33 To start seeds such as tomatoes and peppers early sow them in a small seed tray and place them in your hot water cupboard at new moon. hot water cylinder n. originally British a cylindrical hot water tank; spec. one which contains a heating element and supplies hot water for a building, etc. ΚΠ 1832 Reg. Arts & Jrnl. Patent Inventions 7 58 These cloths may be conveniently kept in readiness in a hot closet..or on the hot water cylinders used for garden hothouses, and for large rooms. 1925 Times 7 Apr. (Housing & Building Suppl.) p. iv/3 ‘Circulating’ boilers, heated by gas or gas-coke, through which water is continually circulating to the hot-water cylinder..so that there is a constant supply of hot water to all taps in the house. 2007 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Farming section) 12 On a sunny day water entering the hot water cylinders was already at 70 degrees, meaning less electricity was being used to heat it to the required 85° C. hot water paste n. a type of pastry made by melting the fat in hot water before mixing with the flour. ΚΠ 1818 L. E. Ude French Cook (ed. 5) 351 Hot Water Paste... This paste does not taste so nice as the other, but you may work it with greater facility, and it is not liable to so many accidents. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 332 Hot-water paste for raised pies—that is, pies baked without dishes. 1993 Food Prepar. & Cooking 177 Lard is the rendered fat of the pig. It is used for savoury pastes such as hot water paste. hot-water pipe n. a pipe carrying hot water, esp. in the heating system of a building. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat sidewaya1387 caliduct1624 floor-pipe1691 stovepipe1691 trill1707 flue1715 hot-water pipe1744 riser1876 flow-pipe1904 1744 D. Stephenson Med. made to Agree i. 5 Upon turning open the Cock of the hot Water Pipe..the Bathing Vessel will be immediately filled to the same Height as before with hot Water. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxviii. 274 The hot-water pipes that trail themselves all over the house..fail to supply the fires' deficiencies. 1912 M. Beerbohm Christmas Garland 26 The faint yet heavy fragrance exhaled from the hot-water pipes. 2004 Field Sept. 126/1 A lean-to vine house heated with an elaborate system of hot water pipes fed from a coal-fired boiler. hot water tank n. a tank for storing hot water; spec. such a tank which heats and supplies water for a building, etc. ΚΠ 1847 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 17 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) A new and practical method of producing uniform Bottom Heat [in a garden hothouse] from Hot Water Tanks. 1917 L. E. Robinson Domest. Archit. xiii. 232 The most common device, besides the regular hot water tank and coils, for supplying hot water to a residence, is the gas heater. 1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. (Easy Ways to Green Home Suppl.) 6/2 Insulate your hot water tank (use a jacket at least 80mm thick) and lag pipes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE
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