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Air Pump :: Air pump () A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space..

Sump :: Sump (n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..

Pumped :: Pumped (imp. & p. p.) of Pum.

Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..

Pumpage :: Pumpage (n.) That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps..

Scaphognathite :: Scaphognathite (n.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Pumpion :: Pumpion (n.) See Pumpkin.

Tapper :: Tapper (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer..

Pepo :: Pepo (n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.

Petroleum :: Petroleum (n.) Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc..

Hood :: Hood (n.) The top of a pump.

Double-acting :: Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump..

Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..

Pump :: Pump (v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump..

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