garden hose

plural garden hoses · alternative gardenhose · alternative garden-hose

1. uncountableA type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.

   I'm not sure what that reason was either, but he needed about 500 feet of garden hose. I said, "Okay, I'll trade you the garden hose for two pallets of sandbags. And I need them trucked over there to Qua Viet."

   2005, Richard Burks Verrone, Laura M. Calkins, Voices from Vietnam, David & Charles, page 172

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   Mayor Scott also made himself useful, and, with a number of others, so manipulated a garden hose that the flames were prevented from spreading to the electric light buildings, which were only a few feet distant.

   1890 July 13, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “The Grand Opera House”, in The Deseret weekly, volume 41, page 82

   Synonyms: hosepipe

2. countableA length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.