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ˈsucking-pump
†1. An air-pump. Obs.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. Proem 12 A Sucking Pump, or as we formerly call'd it, an Air Pump.
2. A suction pump. Now rare.
1660D'acres Art Water-drawing 5 As it is every day to be seen in sucking Pumps, whose water will not follow the Bucket much above the said hight. 1707Mortimer Husbandry (1721) I. 92 Those continual Repairs and Mendings, that the least Defects in Sucking-pumps are constantly requiring. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 116 A contrivance for converting the common sucking-pump into a lifting-pump. 1830Herschel Study Nat. Phil. iii. i. 228 On the occasion of a sucking-pump refusing to draw water above a certain height. |