rotary pump

American  

noun

1. 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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rotary pump British  

noun

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

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rotary pump

Firemen ran an air hose down the well, began pumping air down by a rotary pump.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frank, glad to do something to warm himself, set to work at the little rotary pump, and a stream of water splashed and spread about the deck, which slanted and straightened irregularly.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

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 Sorata would not lie-to without somebody at the helm, and he could only leave the tiller lashed for a few minutes now and then while he labored at the little rotary pump.

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold

In 1593 Serviere, a Frenchman, born in Lyons, invented the rotary pump.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry