Crossword clues for sprinkler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprinkler \Sprin"kler\ (-kl[~e]r), n.
One who sprinkles.
An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, agent noun from sprinkle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that sprinkles. 2 An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth. 3 A fire sprinkler; a heat actived fire extinguisher.
WordNet
n. mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden
Wikipedia
Sprinkler may refer to:
- Irrigation sprinkler, a device for irrigation of lawns or crops
- Fire sprinkler system, the entire systems of pipes and sprinklers intended for fire suppression within buildings
- Fire sprinkler, a device for fire suppression within buildings
Usage examples of "sprinkler".
Enter Madame, pushes the triple door, which recloses heavily, brushes with rapid fingers the holywater sprinkler which that pious old man holds out, and carefully makes a graceful little sign of the cross so as not to spot her ribbons.
Across the distant hockey field, through the sprinklers, Verrie and Trish ran, ran.
This had been something like the famous aeolipile of Hero-in a lost timeline, a manufacturer of mechanical novelties in Alexandria-just a pressure vessel with two canted nozzles that would vent steam and spin around like a lawn sprinkler.
Rototilled earth of the side yard, Corde turned on the sprinkler, which began to saturate the patch of mud that the seed package had promised four weeks ago would be luxurious green in six.
It had always amazed Longarm how people could almost come to blows over whether it was best to be a dunker or a sprinkler.
Sprinklers continued to leak tepidly into the conflagration, adding steam to the toxic pall.
Taking her at her word, Cole gathered up all his information and they poured over sprinkler brochures, finally settling on a good yet affordable system.
I stared out the window and as I watched, the sprinklers kicked on, shooting up cones of spray all over the lawn.
And when we saw you going for the sprinklers, Ricky turned the system off.
She hopped the fence at the end of my backyard, and is probably scrambling around in the brush on the slope that goes down behind the property, where the sprinklers are.
The robe, when it was still wet from the now-failing sprinklers, had perhaps saved her life among the flames.
Almost instantly, there was a gurgling hiss and water began to sputter from the fire sprinklers lining the vaulted ceiling.
But the volume from the sprinklers was already slowing, what little water had remained in the century-old feeder pipes depleting rapidly.
Long minutes passed with the floor vents spitting out tiny gasps of mustard gas while the sprinklers pitifully drizzled their dwindling supply onto the reeking death mist.
But designed to extinguish a warehouse full of burning munitions, the fire sprinklers still sputtered out the occasional burst of water.