fire polen.
/ˈfʌɪə pəʊl/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)r ˌpoʊl/ΘΚΠ
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1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical xx. 506 (header) To make Fire-Poles or Perches [Fr. des Perches à feu].
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Fire-Poles One of the ends of the fire-pole is hollowed out with three or four flutes... Into one of these flutes are fixed rockets or squibs.
1849 O. Turner Pioneer Hist. Holland Purchase 212 The enemy began to fire red-hot balls in the night; they also fired fire-poles.
2. Any of various types of pole used by firefighters, esp. one used to pull down walls, ceilings, etc., in burning buildings. Cf. fire hook n. 1, pike-pole n. 2. Now historical and rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > hook for pulling down buildings
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1736 Old Whig 20 May There was only one Fire-pole at first in the Place, and that was burnt as the People were making use of it in pulling down a House.
1777 Ordinance in Ordinances Governor & Legislative Council Quebec (1795) xiii. 103 Every house-keeper..shall keep..two fire-poles..in order to knock off the roofs of houses that are on fire, or that are in immediate danger of becoming so.
1828 H. Thomas Wards London I. 190 A large fire pole, which reached to the roofe.
1891 S. W. Duncan Oration delivered Commemoration 250th Anniv. Settlem. Haverhill, Mass. 168 The leather buckets, brightly painted and lettered..; the long fire pole, painted green, with its sharp metallic tip.
1903 Insurance Engin. Mar. 221 Outside of the automatic sprinkler, protection is afforded on every floor by..fire poles and axes.
1980 P. R. Reynolds Guy Carleton iv. 30 The fire poles were each ten feet long..and had crossbars at one end... Four men, two to a pole, could wrench loose a burning roof and topple it off the walls.
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a. A fireman's pole in a fire station; = fireman's pole n. 3.
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1929 Bakersfield Californian 9 May 1/3 A member of the..volunteer fire department, died..as the result of..an injury received..when he was sliding down a fire pole.
1973 Cincinnati Mag. Mar. 31/1 They [sc. the fire company] do not sit around a fire pole all day playing poker.
1992 E. Kraft Little Follies (1995) xix. 92 The room he planned would fill the whole attic... In the morning I would slide down a fire pole to the hall outside the bathroom.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Mar. i. 14/1 The image of big brawny firefighters devouring platters of four-alarm chili..is as much a part of firehouse lore as brass fire poles and heroic Dalmatians.
b. A fixed vertical pole used as a piece of play equipment; = fireman's pole n. 2.
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1954 Washington Post 1 Dec. 15/8 This..playground..snubs the conventional swings, slides and jungle gyms... The piece de resistance is the fire pole.
1993 A. Brett et al. Compl. Playground Bk. iii. 49 Creative playground equipment (tires, metal tunnels, fire poles.., [etc.]) was consistently more popular than traditional equipment.
2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. a1 They climbed fire poles and swung from monkey bars in front of walls tagged with spray paint.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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