Other forms: hoses, hosed
A hose is the flexible pipe water is directed through. A garden hose, fire hose, hose it down.
A fire hose is stiff when charged and impossible to steer alone, which is why crews work in pairs. As a verb, to hose something down is to wash it with a jet. Note that hose also means stockings or leggings, which is the older sense — the Old English word meant a covering for the leg.
1nounhoseA flexible pipe for directing water.
“He watered the garden with a long green hose.”
2verbwashTo wash something with a jet of water.
“She hosed the mud off the car in the driveway.”
hose is a pipe.
Old English hosa meant a leg covering. The sense of a flexible pipe came from Dutch, from the same word.
Middle English
hose
English, today
hose
Built from
From Middle English hose. From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic hosā, from Proto-Germanic husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, xto kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (“gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (“bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (“intestine”). More at sky.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA