hosing

noun2

1. •
   A spraying or washing with a hose.

   • Newspapers spread around Soaking all that they can A cleaning is due again A good hosing down — 1989
2. •
   (no longer used) Material used for making hosiery.

   • Their hosing, also, in the middle and northern parts of the Valley, is quite insufficient; being generally of cotton or silk […] — 1850