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

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chain pump

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

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

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 Akins, Thomas B.

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)

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