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Sprinkler   Listen
noun
Sprinkler  n.  
1.
One who sprinkles.
2.
An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sprinkler" Quotes from Famous Books



... explained the United States way, and how the Boss was a good deal of a rooster himself, with real money enough to buy up a whole rink full of Dago princes, why Miss Padova feels like a plush Christmas box at a January sale. She turns on the sprinkler, wants to know what they suppose the Boss thinks of her, and says she wants to go back to It'ly by the ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... what the Arabs call a 'kum-kum,' probably used as a sprinkler, or to hold rose-water. Hundreds of 'em ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey

... the ranch house itself, with its white picket fence, its few flower beds, and grove of eucalyptus trees. On the lawn at the side of the house, he saw Harran in the act of setting out the automatic sprinkler. In the shade of the house, by the porch, were two or three of the greyhounds, part of the pack that were used to hunt down jack-rabbits, and ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... Fortunately, I wasn't faced with a completely dry well or one that had shrunk to below 1 gallon per minute, as I soon discovered many of my neighbors were cursed with. Three gallons per minute won't supply a fan nozzle or even a common impulse sprinkler, but I could still sustain my big raised-bed garden by watering all night, five or six nights a week, with a single, 2-1/2 gallon-per-minute sprinkler that I moved ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon



Words linked to "Sprinkler" :   sprinkler system, sprinkle



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