A portable hand-held or wheeled first aid device designed to extinguish small fires; it is filled with an extinguishing agent such as water, halon, CO2, dry powder, etc
Ralph W. Burklin & Robert G. Purington, Fire Terms: A Guide to Their Meaning and Use, National Protection Association, Boston, MA 1980 USA. (Guide: Meaning and Use, Nat Prot Association Fr Srvc - Amer) {457}