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Pumping station   /pˈəmpɪŋ stˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Pumping station

noun
1.
A house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated.  Synonym: pump house.






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"Pumping station" Quotes from Famous Books



... the subtle, invisible presence of the Ally, and it was well that someone just then saw the smoke from the coming train two or three miles away, around the curve beyond the pumping station. ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright

... the third place from it was her uncle's house. Slowly the steamer, now in mid-stream, drew away from the town. One by one the familiar landmarks—the packing house, the soap factory, the Geiss brewery, the tall chimney of the pumping station, the shorn top of Reservoir Hill—slipped ghostlily away to the southwest. The sobs choked up into her throat and the tears rained from her eyes. They all pitied and looked down on her there; still, it had been home the only ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips



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