pump
/pʌmp/ sustantivo C2- A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel) · She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
- A dancing shoe.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
Plural pumps
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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To pump and stable, tree and swing,
At six he drew a picture of the town pump with a prominent citizen passing it hastily.
Edmond thus had the advantage of knowing what the owner was, without the owner knowing who he was; and however the old sailor and his crew tried to “pump” him, they extracted nothing more from him; he gave accurate descriptions of Naples and Malta, which he knew as well as Marseilles, and held stoutly to his first story.
‘I will blow the brains out of the first man who leaves the pump,’ said he.”
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