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Fire main

faɪər meɪn
Album sheet with 12 cut-out scenes from mainly folk prints, including a building on fire, a box bed, gentlemen offering a lady a chair and a wedding ceremony. Below some images a caption in letterpress.
Album sheet with 12 cut-out scenes from mainly folk prints, including a building on fire, a box bed, gentlemen offering a lady a chair and a wedding ceremony. Below some images a caption in letterpress.
Illustrations
Album page with 6 cut-out scenes from mainly folk prints, of soldiers firing a cannon, a crowd in the street, a scholar in his study and children playing.
Album page with 6 cut-out scenes from mainly folk prints, of soldiers firing a cannon, a crowd in the street, a scholar in his study and children playing.
The main tower of Hoorn has been hit by lightning and is on fire. Firefighters are busy putting out the fire. A crowd of people is watching on the square.
The main tower of Hoorn has been hit by lightning and is on fire. Firefighters are busy putting out the fire. A crowd of people is watching on the square.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Fire main
    a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire.
Usage in the news

"The main things in morning briefing were public safety and firefighter safety," Cottonwood Fire incident command spokesman Marc Peebles said today. nbcsandiego.com

Iranian police officers blocking a street as garbage cans are set on fire, in central Tehran, near Tehran's old main bazaar. klewtv.com

BRISTOL, Maine (AP) _ The Maine fire marshal's office is investigating a fire in which a woman was killed and a man was injured. mpbn.net

CINCINNATI (AP) — University of Cincinnati students got warnings to stay inside after two weekend incidents in which shots were fired near the main campus. hiznews.com

A fight between two women in the Hebrew quarter of South Main street about 1:30 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon reunited in a funny joke on the fire department. phillyburbs.com

The fire heavily damaged the main lounge where people smoke water-filtered tobacco in a large pipe. npv1440.com

Just after 2 am a white truck smashed into a fire hydrant at 11th and Louis streets, leaving the water main gushing onto the street. kiem-tv.com

Fire destroyed Main Street location a year ago. news-sentinel.com

Dorje Rinchen, a farmer in his late 50s, runs after setting himself on fire on the main street in Xiahe in northwestern China's Gansu province. foxnews.com

An early morning fire in a residence hall at the University of Southern Maine in gorham was intentionally set, that's according to school officials. abi.tv

Maine authorities are trying to find out who's been jamming the radio transmissions of several southern Maine fire and rescue departments, a problem that could lead to dangerous situations and even criminal charges. abi.tv

Members of the Snowflake Fire Department carry the coffin of Keith " Kip " Pundt to the department's 1948 fire engine, on which he made his last ride down Main Street to the cemetery. azjournal.com

Sept 25, 2012 2:30 p.m. MERCERSBURG — J&J Laundromat , 345 N Main St, sustained some damage, but a 9:33 am fire did not spread to a restaurant in the same building Monday. therecordherald.com

Cigarette blamed for Maine house fire. sunjournal.com

The parade down Main Street in Bethel featured members of the school band, sports teams, fire trucks and more. bethelcitizen.com

Usage in scientific papers

One of these is a new addressable fire detection and alarm system that is fiber linked to the main fire alarm panel at the surface, which serves as the fire alarm command center for the entire Homestake facility.
Reference Design Project Book: NUSEL-Homestake

Usage in literature

High up in the air, at the main-topmast-head, there was perched a ball of fire. "A Voyage round the World" by W.H.G. Kingston

At nine, saw a ship on fire, and another soon after blow up, all without the main topsail. "Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II" by Sir John Ross

Thad and his chums have a wonderful experience when they are employed by the State of Maine to act as Fire Wardens. "The Boy Chums in the Forest" by Wilmer M. Ely

One day, in 1814, a workman hurried into Stephenson's cottage with the startling information that the deepest main of the colliery was on fire! "Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson" by Samuel Smiles

Unfortunately, before I had completed the dormitory for girls, a fire destroyed our main school building with the contents. "Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements" by Various

East of Bar-le-Duc the main line is cut by German shell fire now. "They Shall Not Pass" by Frank H. Simonds

The fire of the men-of-war had, in the first place, been directed mainly against these great cannon. "A Chapter of Adventures" by G. A. Henty

Contact between the main fleets had been lost, and firing had ceased. "The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8)"

Off in the direction of the main fork the sky was all aglow with camp-fires. "Dr. Sevier" by George W. Cable

The point to be made is that the main forces of artillery do not seem to fire very continuously. "The Note-Book of an Attache" by Eric Fisher Wood

Usage in poetry
Swords may stab with savage ire,
Glistening out like rays of fire,
They can ne'er thy power attain,
O'er the sea or o'er the main.
The firemen wrought with might and main,
But still the fire did on them gain,
That it was two hours before they could reach the second floor,
The heat being so intense they could scarcely it endure.
"Soon drifting o'er the Northern main
Grey shores unknown were quickly past;
Our consorts on the rocks were cast,
It was our fate alone to gain
The peaceful haven where Maclaine
Set fire unto our hold.
only skunks, that search
in the moonlight for a bite to eat.
They march on their solves up Main Street:
white stripes, moonstruck eyes' red fire
under the chalk-dry and spar spire
of the Trinitarian Church.
Her voice and her beauty, like molten gold,
Thrilled through him in burning rain.
He was on fire, and she was cold,
Cold as the waveless main;
But his heart-well filled with woe, till it rolled
A torrent that calmed him again.
Still the enemy kept up a blazing fire at them pell-mell,
But they fired too high and not a man of them fell;
And the bullets whistled around them again and again,
Still on went the unwavering Highlanders with might and main.