Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pump for beer, especially for raising beer from the cellar to the bar in a saloon or public house.
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Examples
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Directly behind that end of the counter stood a Gothic brass-mounted beer-pump, at whose faucets Mr. Snelling, the landlord, flooded you five or six mugs in the twinkling of an eye, and raised the vague expectation that he was about to grind out some popular operatic air.
The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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Another popular machine of his is the beer-pump, patented in 1797, by which the publican is enabled to raise from the casks in the cellar beneath, the various liquors sold by him over the counter.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Another popular machine of his is the beer-pump, patented in 1797, by which the publican is enabled to raise from the casks in the cellar beneath, the various liquors sold by him over the counter.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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A bar in modern style, well replenished with decanters, bottles, cigar-boxes and network bags of lemons, and provided with a beer-pump and a soda-fount, extends along one side of the room.
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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