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View synonyms for hook and ladder
hook and ladder
[ hook uhn lad-er ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hook and ladder1
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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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.
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She looked at that telephone like a person in the fourth story of a house afire looks at the hook-and-ladder man.
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Meanwhile the machine of the hook-and-ladder experts from across the creek was spinning on its way.
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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.
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More engines had arrived in the street below, and another hook-and-ladder truck.
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