Hose

Hose

1. Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery). Normally I refer to my hose as sox.
2. Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet. English dandies wore hose as the latest fashion in much earlier times.
3. A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas. She got out the hose and watered the flowers.

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Shown is a coil of water hose