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fire engines

fire engines is the plural of fire engine.

Meaning of fire engine

Noun

fire engine (plural fire engines)

  1. A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
    • Near-synonyms: fire truck (usually synonymous in current usage); fire appliance; water engine (formerly synonymous)
  2. (archaic) A steam engine.
    • A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.1844, William Pole, A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine - Parts 1-3, page 110

Questions about fire engines

What is fire engines the plural of?
Fire engines is the plural of fire engine.

Words near fire engines in the dictionary

  1. fire eatings
  2. fire eel
  3. fire engine
  4. fire engine red
  5. fire engine reds
  6. fire engines
  7. fire escape
  8. fire escapes
  9. fire exit
  10. fire exits
  11. fire extinguisher

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