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 dale. See Dale.
— Pump gear, the apparatus belonging to a pump. Totten.
— 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.
PUMP Pump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumped (pûmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Otway.
PUMP
Pump, v. i.
Defn: To work, or raise water, a pump.
PUMPAGE
Pump"age, n.
Defn: That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer.
PUMPER
Pump"er, n.