chain pump

English

Noun

chain pump (plural chain pumps)

  1. A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum.
    • 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:
      […] 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:
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