pumpingn.
/ˈpʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpəmpɪŋ/ 1. The action of pump v. (in various senses); an instance of this.dry pumping, optical pumping: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > pump
pumping1589
pumpage1879
1589 C. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 443 Notwithstanding theyr pumping with three pomps, heauing out water with buckets,..the shippe was halfe full of water ere the leake could be found and stopt.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trentuno,..As we say in England a pumping of a common whore.
1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France lxxxiii. 485 Now Baths are either total, for the whole body, or partial,..such as..fomentations, pumpings, and the like.
1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. i. xi. 242 She needed both drinking, bathing, and pumping, but had not Strength to comport with either.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 133 And oh! (he cry'd) what street, what lane but knows Our purgings, pumpings, blanketings and blows?
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 509 To pour water on those who practised what we term medical pumping.
1806 Guide to Watering Places 27 Pumping in the King's and Queen's bath, 2d. each hundred strokes; at the dry pump, 4d. each hundred strokes.
1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 18 A portion of its bed, which, being drained by pumping, was paddocked out and passed through the cradle.
1900 Daily News 18 Jan. 3/2 The harsher sound of the pumping of the Maxims, Hotchkiss,..and machine guns in general.
1938 Fortune Sept. 3/2 (advt.) All oil hose up to that time had been used for short-distance pumping.
1991 Highway & Heavy Construction Oct. 26/3 The effluent discharge system will work passively. No pumping is needed to maintain the..flow.
2. figurative. The action of attempting to obtain or extract something from someone, esp. the persistent or artful questioning of a person in order to elicit information.
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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddd2/2 [The devil] gives them [sc. old women] leave now and then to use their cunnings, which is to..chafe a dairy-wench into a feaver with pumping for her butter.
?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxxiii Can Patience it selfe (wth out being tired) indure their tedious pumping for improper phrases?
1678 Quacks Acad. 7 A Previous pumping, by apt and wary Questions.
1711 J. Toland Let. 9 Feb. in Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 404 Bantering and fooling..are successful engines in this art of disburthening, which..the French call tirer les vers du nez, and we English pumping.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. xiii. 119 I got out of her, though by hard pumping, that don Ambrosio's castle was but a short league from Ponte de Mula.
1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene I. xiv. 178 Miss Medea brought the cake and wine. As soon as I had dispatched them..she commenced her pumping, as I had anticipated, and which I was determined to thwart.
1910 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 19 Dec. 16/1 The conversation consisted..of a course of subtle..pumping.
1980 J. L. Carr Month in Country 31 From their accounts and from judicious pumping, their mother worked out how it was with me and usually sent a bit of whatever was being manufactured in her kitchen.
3. concrete (usually in plural). That which is produced by pumping.
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1800 Hull Advertiser 27 Sept. 2/1 For sale by the candle,..7 casks olive pumpings.
?1900 V. Adriance Clin. Rep. Chem. Exam. Human Breast Milk 1 It would be preferable in each case to report the analysis of the entire pumpings of one breast.
1998 D. R. Reinhart & T. G. Townsend Landfill Bioreactor Design & Operation iii. 33 The addition of septic tank pumpings..accelerated acid fermentation.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, with sense ‘of, relating to, or characterized by pumping; (of machinery, equipment, etc.) used in or for pumping’.
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1647 Mercurius Melancholicus 17–24 Sept. 12 His very looke bewrayes him to be evacuated from old Belzebubs pumping-hole.
1717–18 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 231 His pumping Tools and other Tools for his Trade..7s 0d.
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 47 It may be drained dry..by Pumping, or other Engines.
1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 341 Method of sinking Pumping-shafts.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 213 The plaintiff was pulled out of the pumping-trough.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 289/2 Being deprived of the pumping well and drain from Wapping.
1893 Daily News 5 July 5/7 The Wheatley seam..access to it is obtained from the pumping shaft by a cage.
1903 J. London Call of Wild i. 16 There was the pumping plant for the artesian well.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 5/3 He went to the pumping-room..to ask when the refrigerator would be started.
1951 Jrnl. Ecol. 39 110 Oil-engined pumping mills..keep the dyke water levels well below those of the river.
1989 Omni Sept. 29/1 What surgeons do is construct an extra pumping chamber.
2006 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 18 Jan. b1 Electricians..spent Tuesday trying to figure out why the alarm and pumping mechanism failed.
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pumping set n. [compare slightly earlier pumpset n. at pump n.1 Compounds 2] = pumpset n. at pump n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > set or installation of
pumpset1883
pumping set?1889
set?1889
?1889 W. Tate Princ. Mining xlvi. 398 Pumping sets for lifting water to bank vary from 8 to 24 inches, and in extreme cases 36 inches in diameter.
1926 Power Engineer 21 333 (heading) A turbine pumping set.
2000 T. Y. Tan & G. Kudaisya Aftermath Partition S. Asia v. 137 The rapid progress of rural electrification..aided greater mechanization of agriculture, with the farmers relying increasingly upon the use of pumping sets, threshers and fodder-cutters.
pumping station n. a station housing a pump or a collection of pumps, esp. for water or sewage.
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1851 Times 1 Feb. 3/2 The invert of the high level sewer at the pumping station will be 20ft. above the Ordnance datum.
1868 Daily News 31 July All the sewage..has to be lifted, and for this purpose there are four pumping stations.
1954 E. Huxley Four Guineas (1955) 35 Sixty or seventy British ex-soldiers were at work..ripping out irrigation channels, building their accompanying bunds and sluices and erecting a pumping station.
1999 Water & Waste Treatm. Sept. 8/3 A number of tunnels have also been pipejacked to connect the storage tunnel to the sewer network and a new pumping station.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
pumpingadj.
/ˈpʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpəmpɪŋ/ 1. That pumps; resembling the working of a pump; (occasionally) that issues from a pump.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > copiously or continuously
outflowingOE
wellingc1400
outgushing1569
overflown1579
profluous1585
outstreaming1598
spewing1616
effluxivea1657
effluxing1674
effluenced1691
effluent1726
effusive1726
outwelling1736
profluent1737
outpouring1808
pumping1812
gushing1815
founting1827
flowing1867
fountaining1883
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 50 The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow.
1856 A. R. Wallace in Ann. Nat. Hist. July 27 A female Mias..uttering at intervals a loud, pumping grunt.
1913 Times 11 July 13/3 Fatigue and a pumping heart militate against marksmanship.
1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose (1972) iv. ii. 205 She looked at the horse, spraddle-legged, dull-eyed, with pumping ribs and flaring nostrils.
1996 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 18 Aug. 7 b/2 A computer translated these measurements into an image of the pumping heart.
2. That causes pumping or panting. rare.
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1876 Coursing Cal. 216 Sir Charles left Albatross as though he were standing, and made rings around him in another pumping course.
3. Of music: having a strong, propulsive rhythm, esp. with a heavy bass line. Cf. pump v. 18.
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1980 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. c22/2 He punched out the pumping funk numbers with sovereign authority.
1995 Mixmag May 56/1 A couple of pumping tunes later and the cheers are starting.
2002 G. Mulholland This is Uncool 84/2 One of the all-time great intros—ominous, circling and pumping bass and drums under Gill's itchy and freaked guitar slashes.
4. Surfing. Of waves, surf, etc.: breaking in a consistent, powerful manner and at regular intervals, typically producing ideal conditions for surfing.
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1987 Surfing May 69/1 The Big Kahuna was whipping up pumping swell after pumping swell.
1990 B. Jenkins N. Shore Chrons. 173 There were two heats with really pumping waves.
1998 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 29 May 7 He claimed to be a surfing legend and would rave about the ‘pumping’ waves.
2007 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 16 Feb. 62 Organisers hope the week's pumping swell will hold out for this weekend's contest.
2010 T. Anderson Grey Skies, Green Waves vi. 127 Here—a rarity to be savoured—was pumping..surf in gorgeous glassy conditions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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