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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.
A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.
a. & n. from 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.
A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air.
A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
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.
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A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
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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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The for pump in the pit.
v. i.
To work, or raise water, a pump.
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See Pumpkin.
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To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
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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.
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A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
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One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
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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.
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That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
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