pump-treen.

1617 in J. P. Earwaker Hist. Anc. Parish Sandbach (1890) 136 Item a Levill and a staffe vj^d..pumptree v^s.

1647 R. Josselin Diary 11 Jan. (1976) 83 My workemen hewed one of the trees Sir Tho: Honywood gave mee for a pumpe tree.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pump The Pump-Tree, which is that Part that stands more above the Earth, or Top of the Well.

1752 Narr. Disturbances & Outrages in Norwich 11 He..caused to be dug..a large hole, 17 or 18 feet square, and four or five feet deep, into which a large spout or pump-tree was laid, to let the filth out of the common shore run in.

1805 Times 25 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) The Materials of a Steam Engine and Condenser, also Pump, Pump Trees, and Working Apparatus.

1829 ‘R. Stuart’ Anecd. Steam Engines I. 306 Employed..for boring the wooden pipes or pumptrees, used to convey water.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 352/2 In Cornwall the cast iron pump-trees exposed to the action of mine water were very speedily destroyed.

1863 Times 9 Oct. 9/4 The well was found to contain a large quanitity of decomposed wood, from the decayed pump-tree and other sources, and a common sewer opened into it.

1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 5 One sees them [sc. bluebirds] hovering with a saucy, inquiring air about barns and out-buildings,..inspecting knot-holes and pump-trees.

1929 H. C. Mercer Anc. Carpenter's Tools 192/2 The pumpborer's reamer,..employed by the old pumpmakers, not to bore holes, but to enlarge holes already bored in pump-trees.