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PUMP, n. [The L. bombus is of the same family, as is the Eng.bombast.]

1. A hydraulic engine for raising water, by exhausting the incumbent air of a tube or pipe, in consequence of which the water rises in the tube by means of the pressure of the air on the surrounding water. There is however a forcing pump in which the water is raised in the tube by a force applied to a lateral tube, near the bottom of the pump.

2. A shoe with a thin sole.

PUMP, v.i. To work a pump; to raise water with a pump.

PUMP, v.t. To raise with a pump; as, to pump water.

1. To draw out by artful interrogatories; as, to pump put secrets.

2. To examine by artful questions for the purpose of drawing out secrets.

But pump not me for politics.

Chain-pump, is a chain equipped with a sufficient number of valves at proper distances, which working on two wheels, passes down through one tube and returns through another.

1913 Definition
Pump (pump)
n.(p&ubreve]mp)
Pump
[Probably so called as being worn for pomp or ornament. See Pomp.]
  1. A low shoe with a thin sole.
    Swift.
  2. 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.

    * 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.

  3. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  6. To work, or raise water, a pump.

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