pump

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1. pump - Noun

2. pump - Verb

Meaning

A low shoe with a thin sole.

An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.

To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

To work, or raise water, a pump.

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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. George William Russell

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle. Bob Dylan

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. Eric Cantor

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Keep your tongue in your jaw and your tow in your pump. Irish Proverb

You can't tell the depth of the well by the length of the handle on the pump. American Proverb

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