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hosepipe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hosepipe
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hosepipe was attached to the exhaust pipe leading into the interior of the van and the engine was still running.
▪ But all hosepipe users will now have to cough up £33 a year.
▪ If you paid a hosepipe fee in the past this has now been dropped.
▪ MacLane slapped his open palm lightly with a leaded length of rubber hosepipe.
▪ MacLane still had his rubber hosepipe with him, like a comforter blanket.
▪ The pond, headers and add-on filters were filled using the hosepipe.
▪ This mains-pressure hosepipe controller is designed to keep your garden watered while you are away from home.
▪ Two months ago six million people faced hosepipe bans - it could be the same story next year.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hosepipe

hosepipe \hosepipe\ n. A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas.

Syn: hose.

Wiktionary
hosepipe

n. (context UK South Africa Southern US English) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.

WordNet
hosepipe

n. a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: hose]

Usage examples of "hosepipe".

In a space suit the Vrenkas looked like a crystal ball sprouting hosepipes, all the hosepipes seemed to hold weapons and the damn thing always charged.

Lack of rain has turned the lawn to the colour of straw: the ban on using hosepipes prevents him from doing much about it.

His work involved the hosepipe, the drains and the gas system, and that night when he slipped down the manhole entrance to the sewer in his wet suit with a large lump of putty in one hand and his torch in the other there was murder in Lockhart's heart.

The adjutant was directing the five personnel who hauled a 10-cm hosepipe to a spring-fed stream to replenish the water tank.