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chain pumps

chain pumps is the plural of chain pump.

Meaning of chain pump

Noun

chain pump (plural chain pumps)

  1. A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum.
    • […] when we came out to Sea [the Ship] prov’d so very leaky, that we were oblig’d to keep two Chain-pumps continually at Work:1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pages 7–8

Questions about chain pumps

What is chain pumps the plural of?
Chain pumps is the plural of chain pump.

Words near chain pumps in the dictionary

  1. chain pier
  2. chain piers
  3. chain pipe
  4. chain pipes
  5. chain pump
  6. chain pumps
  7. chain reaction
  8. chain reactions
  9. chain rule
  10. chain saw
  11. chain saws

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