fire engine
a vehicle equipped for firefighting, now usually a motor truck having a motor-driven pump for shooting water or chemical solutions at high pressure.
Origin of fire engine
1- See also fire truck (def. 2).
- Compare ladder truck.
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How to use fire engine in a sentence
Indeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow that the fire-engine house was surrounded by the marines, he was certain nobody could escape.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was Ann in her fire-engine Oscar de la Renta, straight out of the First Lady playbook.
Valerie Biden Owens Wears Givenchy Bird of Paradise Dress to Democratic National Convention | Isabel Wilkinson | September 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut this fall specifically, a fire-engine coif is proving to be the must-have for the fashion pack.
New precautions against fire were taken in Newport by the formation of firewards, and a fire engine was sent for from England.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
While he sat there some bells began ringing furiously and a steam fire engine rushed by.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes | William Perry BrownIn the following year Braithwaite and Ericsson in London brought out the first portable fire-engine.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeSuddenly there was a clang-clang of gongs, and all traffic drew to one side to allow the passage of a flying motor fire-engine.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar WallaceThe Steam Fire-Engine is still another form of portable engine.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston
British Dictionary definitions for fire engine
a heavy road vehicle that carries firefighters and firefighting equipment to a fire
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