Pump /(pŭmp)/
Pump
n.
- A low shoe with a thin sole.
Pump
n.
- An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
Phrases & Compounds
- Circulating pump
- a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser.
- Pump brake
- See Pump handle, below.
- Pump dale
- See Dale.
- Pump gear
- the apparatus belonging to a pump.
- Pump handle
- the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump.
- Pump hood
- a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump.
- Pump rod
- the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod.
- Pump room
- a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk.
- Pump spear
- Same as Pump rod, above.
- Pump stock
- the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump.
- Pump well
- See Well.
Pump
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Pumped; p. pr. & vb. n. pumping
- To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
- To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
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Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
But pump not me for politics.
Pump
v. i.
- To work, or raise water, a pump.