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sprinkler

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sprinkler
1. In a fire protection system, a device designed to release a stream of water and distribute it in a specified pattern and quantity over a designated area; usually one of many such outlet nozzles.
2. A fire-protection sprinkler system.
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Most Black Hawk fathers had no personal habits outside their domestic ones; they paid the bills, pushed the baby-carriage after office hours, moved the sprinkler about over the lawn, and took the family driving on Sunday.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
The moment the housekeeper saw them she turned about and ran out of the room, and came back immediately with a saucer of holy water and a sprinkler, saying, "Here, your worship, senor licentiate, sprinkle this room; don't leave any magician of the many there are in these books to bewitch us in revenge for our design of banishing them from the world.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
The most humble clerks such as our deacons and sacristans, bless with holy water sprinklers, which resemble an infinite number of blessing fingers.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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