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fire engine

  1. a motor truck with a special pumping apparatus for spraying water, chemicals, etc. on fires to put them out
  2. loosely any motor truck for carrying firemen and equipment to a fire

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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