pump
/pʌmp/ noun B1- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. · This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping. · It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump. · This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
- A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender. · She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
- The heart.
Plural pumps
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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.
‘All hands to the pumps!’ I shouted; but it was too late, and it seemed the more we pumped the more came in.
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