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

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

Right here in the middle of this inside place is a chain pump.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.

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.

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)