fire hose

So he will let us turn on the fire-hose from the first, and let off no volleys in the air.

They could sweep the approaches to the fort as a fire-hose flushes a gutter.

A municipality might as well talk about buying its fire-hose after the conflagration has started.

The pines go right up overhead; a little more and the stream might have played, like a fire-hose, on the Toll House roof.