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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who, or that which, drenches.
2. 2
   A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.

   "A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads."

Synonyms

All synonyms

cloudburstdelugedownfalldownpourfloodplash

Example

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"A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads."

Etymology

From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench + -er.

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