noun.
A low shoe with a thin sole.
intransitive verb.
To work, or raise water, a pump.
transitive verb.
To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
transitive verb.
To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump
transitive verb.
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.
noun.
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.
noun.
a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser.
noun.
See Pump handle, below.
noun.
See Dale.
noun.
the apparatus belonging to a pump.
noun.
the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump.
noun.
a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump.
noun.
the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod.
noun.
a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk.