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

When hydraulic draining-engines were first employed is not known, but even so late as the close of the eighteenth century some mines were drained by the rag and chain pump worked by 36 men.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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)

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)