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C-123 or C-130 aircraft equipped with a rubberized collapsible drum and 350-GPM (gallons per minute) pumps. Also called "Bladder Bird" or "Cow." Pg. 510
n pumps. Lightweight heeled womenÂ’s dress shoes with enclosed toes.
Pumps is British slang for tennis shoes. Plimsolls.
Turret at top of locomotive boiler, over crown sheet, from which saturated steam is taken for operation of pumps, stoker, injectors, and headlight turbine
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A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.
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In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
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The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
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A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
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A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
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The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
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That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
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One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
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The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
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An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection.
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An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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