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Oil pump   /ɔɪl pəmp/   Listen
Oil pump

noun
1.
A pump that keeps a supply of oil on moving parts.






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"Oil pump" Quotes from Famous Books



... presses, the stop valves are so arranged that either press may be let down, or set to work without in the smallest degree affecting the other. The oil from the presses is caught in an oil tank behind, from which an oil pump, worked by an eccentric, forces it in any desired direction. The cakes, on being withdrawn from the press, are stripped of the bagging and cut to size in a specially arranged paring machine, which is placed off the bed-plate behind the kettle, and ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various



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