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ˈpump-ˌhandle, n.
a. The handle by which a pump, esp. the ordinary hand- or house-pump, is worked; also transf. (see quot. 1794).
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. Gloss., Pump or Plow Handles, the long projecting timbers, on the hind part of the Carriages, on which the foot-board is placed. Ibid. I. 121. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 252 The quantity of water raised by each stroke of the pump-handle is just as much as fills that part of the bore in which the piston works. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxi, He ceased swinging [his]..arms to and fro like a pump-handle. 1883[see pump n.1 5].
b. attrib. Applied to movement resembling the working of the handle of a pump.
1820Sporting Mag. VII. 108 The pump-handle shake [of hands] is the first which deserves notice. 1886Besant Childr. Gibeon i. ix, One after the other gave him her hand, which Sam accepted with a pump-handle movement. 1892J. E. Cox Five Years in U.S. Army 83 Performing the ‘pump-handle act’ with my right arm, I hastened away to obey orders. 1909R. E. Knowles Attic Guest xv. 204 They nearly all shook hands in the high pump-handle fashion that was almost unknown in the South.
Hence ˈpump-handle v. trans. (colloq.), to shake in greeting (a person's hand, or a person by the hand) as if working a pump-handle; to move (an arm, etc.) in such a manner; also intr.; ˈpump-handler, a hand-shake of this nature.
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxi, Exchanged the salute for a most hearty old English pump-handler. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxxii, In an instant the four were..pump-handling each other's arms as if they were going into ecstasies. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines xx, He and Sir Henry were pump-handling away at each other. |