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drencher

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From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench + -er.

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

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@misc{drencher_2026,
  title = {drencher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drencher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}