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

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Example Sentences

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chain pump

Mr. Galvin, the master's mate, after incredible difficulty, got into the main top—he was below when the ship sank, directing the men at the chain pump.

From History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins

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 Robert P. Multhauf

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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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 Georgius Agricola

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 Honoré Morrow

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