And as the anchor appeared and the windlass stopped heaving while the men HOSED the mud from the flukes, Mr. Spokesly began to realize, with his new-found perception, that what he took to be confidence was only desire.
"Command"
William McFee
They were terrible hours to endure, but our men held out nobly; and when the enemy made his counter-attacks in the afternoon and evening, advancing in waves with a most determined spirit, they were HOSED with machine-gun bullets and fell like grass before the scythe.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
A stream of water HOSED into the tube would have worked the same way.
"Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet"
Harold Leland Goodwin