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

Another loud yawn and Amos was heard to begin on the mechanism of the huge old wall clock which wound with a sound like an old-fashioned chain pump.

From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré

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.

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)

Thus—lamp, wick, oil, handle-bars, spokes, tires, chain, pump, nuts, bell, hedges, fields, sheep, roads, hill, dog.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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)