pumper

[ puhm-per ]

noun

1. a person or thing that pumps. pump.
2. a fire truck specially equipped to pump water at the site of a fire.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pumper¹

First recorded in 1650–60; pump ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The "organ beater" of bygone days was invariably accompanied by the "organ pumper," often by several of them.

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This meant that the person who pumped must remember to fill a can of water and leave it for the next pumper.

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Yet with Yoricks inconsequence, the narrator is led aside and exclaims at the end of this chapter, But where is Pumper?

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The servant Pumper is a man of feeling, who grieves that the horses trod the dewdrops from the blades of grass.

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I was startled because this was almost the only man except the pumper and the train crews that had been there since I came.

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