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Pump

noun

A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction.

The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body. Synonyms: heart, ticker.

A low-cut shoe without fastenings.

verb

(past & past part. pumped; pres. part. pumping)

Operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal.

Deliver forth.

Draw or pour with a pump.

Supply in great quantities.

Flow intermittently.

Move up and down.

Raise (gases or fluids) with a pump.

Question persistently.

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... into a courtyard, and washed his wound at the pump. The cold water made him shiver, and his head lolled weakly. "Such a snotty blackleg!" he murmured. "I'll get the chairman to give him ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... Tufted Furniture.—For tufted furniture use a bicycle pump to remove dust. Garments to be stored for the summer months should first be aired well on a bright breezy day. Brush thoroughly and shake free of dust. Do not leave clothing out in the air after three o'clock in the afternoon, as from that time until dark all sorts of insects are ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... you a question is like priming a pump," said Franklin, as he turned to Solomon with a laugh. "Washington is about four times the average man, with something to spare and that something is the dog under the wagon. It would seem that the Lord ...

— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller

... common playground of these narrow streets, and one sees in them pretty well every form of animal life represented, except horses. Now a long cart, drawn by oxen and well filled, toils up the hill, and not long after follows one drawn by a big dog. At a pump two tiny girls are busily employed filling stone jars, which by the beauty and purity of their outlines might have been Etruscan. Mothers beat mats at their cottage doors, and shrilly scream at their children to get out of the way of the passing carts; and the world in this remote village goes ...

— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson

... to ask that there be any increase of the one or any diminution of the other, but only that each shall preempt its own territory and stay there. Milk is good, and water is good, but don't set the milk-pail under the pump. Pleasure softens pain, but pain embitters pleasure; and who would not rather have his happiness concentrated into one memorable day that shall gleam and glow through a lifetime, than have it spread out over a dozen comfortable, commonplace, humdrum forenoons and afternoons, each one ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

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