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Fire engine   /fˈaɪər ˈɛndʒən/   Listen
Fire engine

noun
1.
Any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire.  Synonym: fire truck.






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"Fire engine" Quotes from Famous Books



... at making a machine of such construction as would answer to extinguish fires; but none of them proved to be available in a sufficiently short space of time to warrant their use as a fire apparatus. We hold that a steam fire engine should be of such nature as to be brought into requisition in as short a space of time as is necessary to get the machine on the ground, and the hose laid and ready to work: that is, supposing the fire to be within one ...
— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... delightful place. There are trees there, and publishing houses and warm green grass and a fire engine station. There are children playing about on the broad pavements that criss-cross the sward; there is a fine roof of blue sky, kept from falling down by the enormous building at the north side of the Square. But these ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley



Words linked to "Fire engine" :   ladder truck, fire truck, aerial ladder truck, truck, motortruck



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