chain pump

American  

noun

1. a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.

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Etymology

Origin of chain pump

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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chain pump

This apparatus is identical with the Cornish "rag and chain pump" of the same period, and we have therefore adopted that term.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

The boards or buckets of the chain pump were six by twelve inches, placed nine inches apart, and with a fair breeze the pump ran full.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

The most powerful machine then in use for deep mines appears to have been the horse-powered rag and chain pump.

From Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later by Multhauf, Robert P.

The chain pump and other pumps of simple form have only been improved since Hero's day in matters of detail.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

I have sometimes thought the modern endless or chain pump as perfect a fixture as any other.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)