PUMPING

Verb

pumping

present participle of pump

Noun

pumping (countable and uncountable, plural pumpings)

The act by which something is pumped.

Source: Wiktionary

Pump"ing,

Definition: a. & n. from pump. Pumping engine, a steam engine and pump combined for raising water. See Steam engine.

PUMP

Pump (pûmp), n. Etym: [Probably so called as being worn for pomp or ornament. See Pomp.]

Definition: A low shoe with a thin sole. Swift.

Pump, n. Etym: [Akin to D. pomp, G. pumpe, F. pompe; of unknown origin.]

Definition: 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.

Note: for various kinds of pumps, see Air pump, Chain pump, and Force pump; also, under Lifting, Plunger, Rotary, etc. Circulating pump (Steam Engine), a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser.

– Pump brake. See Pump handle, below.

– Pump dale. See Dale.

– Pump gear, the apparatus belonging to a pump. Totten.

– Pump handle, the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump.

– Pump hood, a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump.

– Pump rod, the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod.

– Pump room, a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk. [Eng.] -- Pump spear. Same as Pump rod, above.

– Pump stock, the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump.

– Pump well. (Naut.) See Well.

Pump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumped (pûmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. pumping.]

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

2. 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.

3. 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. But pump not me for politics. Otway.

Pump, v. i.

Definition: To work, or raise water, a pump.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition