gardenhose

plural gardenhoses

1. alternativenonstandardAlternative spelling of garden hose.

   We can make artificial rainbows with a gardenhose and a sprinkler head adjusted for a very fine spray.

   1962, Hans Hermann Neuberger, George W. Nicholas, Manual of lecture demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and observational equipment for teaching elementary meteorology in schools and colleges, page 120

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   Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation.

   1957, United States. Court of Claims, District of Columbia. Court of Appeals, The Federal reporter, Volume 242, page 292

   President Roosevelt launched the Lend-Lease idea at a press conference in November 1940 with the parable “suppose my neighbor's house catches fire, and I have the length of a gardenhose...”

   1961, Hermann Gottlieb Bieri, Kyklos: internationale Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften, Volume 14, page 590

   They hamper progress over the black, volcanic rubble of the Aleutian Island beaches but are handy in sea sprint. His tail, which looks like a piece of flattened gardenhose, serves as an oar.

   1973, Jane H. Bailey, The sea otter's struggle, page 22

   “Now then about machine guns: They work sort of like a gardenhose except they spray death.” - Kurt Vonnegut (1970)

   2010, Jackson Regina, Regina McClinton Jackson, My Favorite Book, page 52