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hydrant

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hy=drant

CIDE DICTIONARY

hydrantn. [Gr. to irrigate, fr. "y`dwr water. See Hydra.].
     A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hydrant, n. a pipe (esp. in a street) with a nozzle to which a hose can be attached for drawing water from the main.

Etymology
irreg. f. HYDRO- + -ANT

THESAURUS

hydrant

Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, cock, deck gun, deluge set, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, foam, foam extinguisher, gate, hook-and-ladder, ladder pipe, petcock, plug, pumper, snorkel, soda, spigot, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, stopcock, super-pumper, tap, valve, water, water cannon, water plug, wet blanket

ROGET THESAURUS

hydrant

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.


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