English

Noun

gardenhose ‎(plural gardenhoses)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of garden hose
   • 1957, United States. Court of Claims, District of Columbia. Court of Appeals, The Federal reporter, Volume 242, p. 292:

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

   • 1961, Hermann Gottlieb Bieri, Kyklos: internationale Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften, Volume 14, p. 590:

     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...”

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

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

   • 1973, Jane H. Bailey, The sea otter's struggle, p. 22:

     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.

   • 2010, Jackson Regina, Regina McClinton Jackson, My Favorite Book, p. 52:

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