stirrup pump

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noun

a small hand pump held steady by a stirruplike foot bracket, often used in firefighting.

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Origin of stirrup pump

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby stirrup pump

stirrup, stirrup bone, stirrup cup, stirrup jar, stirrup leather, stirrup pump, stir up, stir up a hornets' nest, stishie, stishovite, stitch

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How to use stirrup 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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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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To accommodate patients getting chemotherapy at odd hours, Hrushesky used a pump that operated automatically.
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So we got a compressor and we would literally pump air into each of the four cameras so we could blow water off the lenses.
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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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But the jar threw my six-shooter where I couldn't reach it, and the carbine was jammed in the stirrup-leather on the wrong side.
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It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.
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British Dictionary definitions for stirrup pump

stirrup pump

noun

a hand-operated vertical reciprocating pump, such as one used in fire-fighting, etc, in which the base of the cylinder is placed in a bucket of water

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