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Sprinkler   /sprˈɪŋklər/  /sprˈɪŋkələr/   Listen
Sprinkler

noun
1.
Mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden.



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"Sprinkler" Quotes from Famous Books



... patents granted to inventors of automatic-sprinklers since the early part of the present century, yet their practical use and introduction has been subsequent to the invention of the sealed automatic-sprinkler by Henry S. Parmelee of New Haven, Ct., about twelve years ago. This device being the first, and for many years the only automatic-sprinkler manufactured and sold, and actually performing service over accidental fires, to him belongs ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various

... done pulled that little lead sprinkler all to bits!" exclaimed Cheyenne, "and you didn't have no tools to do ...
— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... children as that of the day before. They greatly enjoyed the dainty lunch from the little tea-set. They had cocoa to-day instead of the beaten egg and milk; then, just before Hazel went home, Miss Fletcher let her water the garden with a fascinating sprinkler that whirled and was always just about to deluge either the one who ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham

... turn on the sprinkler again," advised L'Enfant Terrible. "It will do you no good. And, anyway, I guess Ford hasn't any too bright a chance with the Grayling. You ought to have seen that handsome Judson Bane lean over her when they ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... if we would take our seven-acre potato field and put in an overhead sprinkler system, and put plenty of manure on it next year, we could increase the yield from ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

... mess! We'll have to get brooms, and a sprinkler busy here, so Peter won't complain," he said, ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour - The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain • George A. Warren

... have them. They all went in, followed by the housekeeper, who grew faint-hearted as soon as she caught sight of all the beautifully bound books in the room. She ran out as if beset, returning immediately with a bowl of holy water and a sprinkler, with which she implored the curate to sprinkle the room, so that none of the magicians who might come out of the books would be left to ...
— The Story of Don Quixote • Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



Words linked to "Sprinkler" :   sprinkler system, sprinkle, mechanical device



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