Definition of "hosing" []

• Present participle of hose. (verb)
• A spraying or washing with a hose. (noun)

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• ""We've been through it before," Larry Morton said, recalling hosing down the roof of his home as flames danced along the edge of his property."
• "I am on the rowing team's "Hose & Hike," which consists of piling into a van on a Saturday afternoon, drinking beer en route to a women's college, finding a friendly bed to sleep in (with some hope of "hosing" the young lass), and then waking up Sunday morning to hike up and down a mountain."
• "I wish the document used the opportunity this point presents of really "hosing" the Catholic Church for its responsibility for the divisions."