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noun 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. Note: for various kinds of pumps, see Air pump, Chain pump, and Force pump; also, under Lifting, Plunger, Rotary, etc. Circulating pump (Steam Engine), a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser. Pump brake. See Pump handle, below. 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. (Eng.) Pump spear. Same as Pump rod, above. Pump stock, the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump. Pump well. (Naut.) See Well.
verb Pump v. t. (past & past part. pumped; pres. part. pumping) 1.To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid. 2.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. 3.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.
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