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Hook and ladder   Listen
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hook and ladder, hook and ladder truck, hook-and-ladder truck  n.  A firefighting truck equipped with a ladder extendable to great length, for access to the upper stories of buildings; it also carries other firefighting equipment; called also ladder truck.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hook and ladder" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a sullen scowl. I drew a long breath of relief, and began to scan the landscape for signs of the hook and ladder company. ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin

... the fire was too near for their own home; also, it was a bigger blaze than could have been made by any number of shacks. And presently there were shouts in the crowd, "It's the Empire! The Old Shops!" There came a hook and ladder truck, rushing by with shrieking siren, and then the fire-chief in his automobile with a fiercely clanging bell; they turned the corner, and far down the street before them was the building in which for four years Jimmie had tended the bolt-making machine. They saw that one ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair



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