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- English Word Pump Definition A low shoe with a thin sole.
- English Word Pump 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.
- English Word Pump Definition To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
- English Word Pump Definition 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.
- English Word Pump Definition 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.
- English Word Pump Definition To work, or raise water, a pump.
- English Word Pumpage Definition That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
- English Word Pumped Definition of Pump
- English Word Pumper Definition One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
- English Word Pumpernickel Definition A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
- English Word Pumpet Definition A pompet.
- English Word pumping Definition of Pump
- English Word Pumping Definition a. & n. from pump.
- English Word Pumpion Definition See Pumpkin.
- English Word Pumpkin Definition A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
- English Word Pumy Definition Large and rounded.
- English Word Pun Definition To pound.
- English Word Pun Definition A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
- English Word Pun Definition To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
- English Word Pun Definition To persuade or affect by a pun.