rotary pump

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noun

a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.

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Words nearby rotary pump

rotary harrow, rotary hoe, rotary plough, rotary plow, rotary press, rotary pump, rotary shutter, rotary-till, rotary tiller, rotary valve, rotary wing

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How to use rotary pump in a sentence

Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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Inquiries will be accepted only via Western Union telegram or rotary phone.
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Bob Bashara was a married Rotary Club president who lived in a ritzy Detroit suburb.
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Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.
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Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.
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The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.
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At Wheal Alfred they have a 64-inch cylinder; the air-pump is 20 inches, and the stroke is half that of the engine.
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I observe that you have ordered the pump, and from the description you give of it, I think it will answer very well.
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It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.
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A feed-pump forced water into the boilers; each had a safety-valve with a lever and weight.
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British Dictionary definitions for rotary pump

rotary pump

noun

engineering a pump in which a liquid is displaced through a shaped stator by a shaped rotor

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