PUMPINGS
Noun
pumpings
plural of pumping
Source: Wiktionary
PUMPING
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