Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body of firemen to attend and man a hose-carriage.
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Examples
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Moyamensing hose-company, and the Wistar parties; -- for geological section of social strata, go to _The Club_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Moyamensing hose-company, and the Wistar parties; - for geological section of social strata, go to The Club.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Moyamensing hose-company, and the Wistar parties; - for geological section of social strata, go to The Club.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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