rotary pump
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Firemen ran an air hose down the well, began pumping air down by a rotary pump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lubrication is of the complete forced circulating system, the oil being supplied to every bearing under high pressure by a rotary pump of large capacity.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
If a rotary pump leaks, the efficiency is not impaired so much as in a piston or plunger pump, all that is necessary being to run the pump at a high speed.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The water was expelled either by means of compressed air or by a rotary pump worked by an electro-motor.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
The tide had covered the wreck, but the big rotary pump was running and, since the men had loosened the top of the cargo, it lifted the slimy stuff.
From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
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