fire engine

noun
/faɪə(ɹ).ɛn.dʒɪn/UK/faɪɚ.ɛn.dʒɪn/US

Definitions

  1. A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine…

    A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.

    • Near-synonyms: fire truck (usually synonymous in current usage); fire appliance; water engine (formerly synonymous)
    • Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”
    • A fire aboard TfW 175007, working a Holyhead-Cardiff Central service on February 8, closed the A483 road while five fire engines from Wrexham, Deeside, and Cheshire attended the scene.
  2. A steam engine.

    • A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fire engine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA