hosepipe

noun

Etymology

From hose + pipe.

  1. inherited from pīpian
  2. inherited from pipen
  3. derived from pipa
  4. derived from pipe
  5. derived from pipire
  6. derived from *pīpa
  7. inherited from *pīpā
  8. inherited from pīpe
  9. inherited from pipe
  10. compounded as hosepipe — “hose + pipe

Definitions

  1. A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.

    • In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban. But he had been too busy to haul full buckets the garden's length.
  2. To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hosepipe. 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