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名詞

drencher (複数形 drenchers)

1. One who, or that which, drenches.
2. A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.
   • 2008, John Ridley, ‎John Channing, Safety at Work (page 675)

     A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads.

   • 1950, Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works, Post-war Building Studies (issues 28-31, page 14)

     The drencher supply should also be separate from the sprinkler supply.