Hose

(hōz.) [Dan.] (Costume.) Close-fitting breeches or pantaloons reaching from the hips to the knees; formerly worn. Among the moderns, the term is applied to stockings or socks, the latter being also styled half-hose. A leathern pipe or tube, used with fire engines, for conveying water for the extinguishing of fires and conflagrations.-(Typog.) Among printers, an instrument employed in the tightening and slackening of the platen cords of a pre . [s. 463]