chain pump

noun

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.

Origin of chain pump

First recorded in 1610–20

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He also invented a wheel to work the chain-pump, which was much safer and less liable to get out of order than that before in use.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston
The chain pump and other pumps of simple form have only been improved since Hero's day in matters of detail.
Inventions in the Century | William Henry Doolittle
The little brook between the lakes runs along like a chain pump and contains about as many trout.
The Tent Dwellers | Albert Bigelow Paine
The most powerful machine then in use for deep mines appears to have been the horse-powered rag and chain pump.
Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later | Robert P. Multhauf
I have sometimes thought the modern endless or chain pump as perfect a fixture as any other.
Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders | William A. Alcott

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