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What is the noun for hosing?

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hoser
  1. One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
  2. (slang) One that hoses, i.e. hurts (someone) badly.
  3. (Canada, slang) A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
  4. (Canada, slang) A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
  5. (Canada, slang) A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “As for Ibiza, Dowse is clearly a hoser who is more at home in a hockey arena than at Manumission.”
      “Couldn't the numbskull hoser get that I wanted nothing to do with him, in any way, shape or form?”
      “Every hoser and his brother knows tonight is the championship game of the World Cup of Hockey.”
hosiery
  1. Undergarments worn on the legs, such as socks, stockings, and pantyhose.
  2. The business or art of a hosier; the practice of making hose.
  3. A shop selling such undergarments.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The hosiery and intimate apparel manufacturer has expanded to casual wear and active wear.”
      “A campaign for hosiery featured the standard disembodied, stocking-clad leg that Dali juxtaposed with his provocative iconography.”
      “Nearly 75 per cent of our production goes to powerloom units and the balance to hosiery, banian and handloom sectors.”
hose
  1. (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
  2. (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
  3. (obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Use a hose to soak or sprinkle problem areas of your lawn or garden.”
      “Pale, pink toenails were visible through translucent hose.”
hosebag
  1. (slang) An undesirable, boorish, unintelligent, or objectionable person; a hoser.
hosier
  1. One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
hoseman
  1. A firefighter who carries and directs the hose.
hosing
hosing
hosen
  1. (poetic, historical, archaic) plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings)
  2. Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “So she did off hosen and shoon, and I led her by the hand, and it took her but up to mid-leg.”
      “When he marked the falling glaive he deemed that his day had come, for he was a naked man, clad in nought but his shirt and hosen.”
      “Down the hill they come in hosen and their saddles are but light, And loose their girths.”
hosemen
  1. plural of hoseman
hosebags
  1. plural of hosebag
hosieries
hosiers
  1. plural of hosier
hosings
hosers
hoses
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