Meanings
noundrencher (plural drenchers)
plural drenchers
- One who, or that which, drenches.
- A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.
The drencher supply should also be separate from the sprinkler supply.
1950, Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works, Post-war Building Studies (issues 28-31, page 14)1 more example
A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads.
2008, John Ridley, John Channing, Safety at Work, page 675
Origin
From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench + -er.
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