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A straight line that still finds every way to knot itself in storage.
means A flexible tube, usually rubber or vinyl, connected to an outdoor spigot and used to carry water to wherever a hand-held spray or sprinkler needs it.
from 'Hose' comes from Old English 'hosa,' meaning a leg covering or stocking — the kind of snug tube worn on legs in medieval dress. The word's meaning stretched, quite literally, from clothing to any long flexible tube, since both are hollow cylinders you pull over or run something through. 'Garden' arrives separately from Old French 'gardin,' rooted in Germanic words for an enclosed yard — so 'garden hose' simply yokes 'enclosed growing space' to 'flexible tube,' a pairing that only became common once rubber and vinyl manufacturing made long household tubing cheap and ordinary, sometime in the industrial era.
- kink physics
- coils remember their shape, so they fight you
- first patent
- 1870s, rubber over cotton-wrapped cores
- longevity hack
- drain it before winter or it cracks
- diameter myth
- bigger hose moves water, not more pressure