fire engine
noun/faɪə(ɹ).ɛn.dʒɪn/UK/faɪɚ.ɛn.dʒɪn/US
Definitions
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.
A steam engine.
- A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA