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pumpless

  • a word derived from pump.
    pump
    noun
    an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.

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I chose what seemed to be the lesser evil; I elected to examine the pumpless pump.

From Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures by Edgar Franklin

Thus I pump water without a pump—in other words, with a pumpless pump!

From Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures by Edgar Franklin