street-sprinkler

The street-sprinkler, the dear old street-sprinkler, was coming!

A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908

Always when the street-sprinkler passed, David had watched it covetously, and now was his chance.

A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908

How, then, can a little boy expect to accomplish any miracles like riding on the street-sprinkler?

A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908

Do you call that any way for the street-sprinkler man to act?

A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908

But the sparrows had many matters to attend to before all the milkmen and bakers got abroad: they must take their morning dust-bath, for one thing, in the worn places between the cobble-stones, before the street-sprinkler began its sloppy rounds.

Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

He walked with the white oak staff, and but for the street-sprinkler the dust would have been flying under his tread.

The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886