wobble pump

noun

Aeronautics.

1. an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wobble pump¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle.

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