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1816 ‘An Old Scene Painter’ Emigrant's Guide 40 The hydrens..are placed in most streets. They are raised about three feet above the surface, are situated by the path side, and have appropriate parts, to which a fire hose may be fastened in an instant.

1883 Cent. Mag. 27 33 The stream might have played, like a fire-hose, on the Toll House roof.

1932 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 36/1 The law requires standpipes with fire-hose connections on every floor.

1948 P. Sturges Unfaithfully Yours (rev. final script) in Four More Screenplays (1995) 865 (stage direct.) He pulls the plunger, then hurries to a box containing folded white firehose and a nozzle.

1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem i. 13 The big heavy white man..slowly moved the black-holed muzzle of his submachine gun over the crowd like the nozzle of a fire hose.

2008 Skiing Heritage Jrnl. Dec. 29/1 The city police were having trouble getting people, mostly hippies, to leave the park at night, so they came by and turned a fire hose on them.

1981 D. Atlas in Digest Internat. Geosci. & Remote Sensing Symp. I. iv. 148/1 We must..concentrate on new means of exploiting the firehose of data which is (or will be) spewing forth from existing and planned satellites.

1997 Chicago Tribune 10 July i. 3/4 Scientists continue to be amazed by the ‘fire hose of data’ they're getting.

2013 M. Weintraub & L. Litwinka Compl. Social Media Community Manager's Guide iv. 172 From that firehose, you can filter out what you need for alerts for as many keywords as you like.