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hook and ladder
noun as in fire truck
Strongest match
Weak match
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Example Sentences
Besides that, they attack with so formidable a battery that no hook-and-ladder corps is needed to "break open" for them.
She looked at that telephone like a person in the fourth story of a house afire looks at the hook-and-ladder man.
Meanwhile the machine of the hook-and-ladder experts from across the creek was spinning on its way.
A hook-and-ladder company now coming up, an effort was made to clap a ladder against the fugitive, but it could not be done.
More engines had arrived in the street below, and another hook-and-ladder truck.
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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hook and ladder, such as: fire engine, and ladder truck.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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