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Sprinkler   /sprˈɪŋklər/  /sprˈɪŋkələr/   Listen
Sprinkler

noun
1.
Mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden.



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"Sprinkler" Quotes from Famous Books



... pushes the triple door, which recloses heavily, brushes with rapid fingers the holywater sprinkler which that pious old man holds out, and carefully makes a graceful little sign of the cross so as not ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
... The seventh is a cupboard half open with pierced doors, in the upper half a censer, and an incense boat, with a label above with these words, 'Dirigatur Domine oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo.' Below is the holy water pot with the sprinkler within, and with a pair of sacrament cruets. The eighth shows the figure of a man with a glory and a diadem on his head, with face and right arm raised to heaven, representing whom I do not understand; above him is ...
— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson
... in the operation of the power reverse gear, sand blower, bell ringer, water scoop, air signal, fire door, water sprinkler and ...
— The Traveling Engineers' Association - To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads • Anonymous
... people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on the look-out and never closed an eye. Exactly at midnight the window opened. At the window appeared a witch all in white. She took a sprinkler, passed her arm into the cottage, and was just on the point of sprinkling—when the Cossack suddenly gave his sabre a sweep, and cut her arm off close to the shoulder. The witch howled, squealed, yelped like a dog, and fled away. But the Cossack picked up the ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... me what I had to do, the same as if I was a hoss. I turned on my heel and strode out o' that store head up an' I was some glad that Hammy had taught me what strodin' was, 'cause the rest o' the gang opened up a path you could 'a' drove a street-sprinkler through. ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason


Words linked to "Sprinkler" :   sprinkler system, sprinkle, mechanical device


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