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stirrup pumpnoun chiefly historicalA portable hand-operated water pump with a footrest resembling a stirrup, used to extinguish small fires.Two of us set off with buckets of water and a stirrup pump and arrived to find the fire was burning on the first floor above the recessed entrance doorway....- They cut two metres of thatch from around the chimney and used a stirrup pump to dowse the smouldering straw.
- Although visitors have sometimes mistaken the ships for radio-controlled models only the German submarine, operated by a wire and stirrup pump, was actually unmanned.
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