Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The force-pump employed in supplying the boiler of a steam-engine with water.

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Examples

  • It just becomes part of the monotony of your daily life, especially if you have, as we had that morning, to wait your turn before you could wash, at the waste-water drippings from a locomotive feed-pump.

    On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

  • The crank-throws give the double bass, the feed-pump sobs an 'heaves,

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • The feed-pump eccentric-shaft of this engine, which was very poor and flaky, suddenly gave out about five in the afternoon, and I had to stop in a hurry, and that sweet invisible mechanism which had crooned and crooned about my ears in the air, and followed me whithersoever I went, stopped too.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • I examined both engines, and found them of the old boiler steam-type with manholes, heaters, autoclaves, feed-pump, &c., now rare in western countries, except England.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • The crank-throws give the double-bass; the feed-pump sobs an 'heaves:

    The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The crank-throws give the double-bass, the feed-pump sobs an 'heaves,

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The crank-throws give the double-bass, the feed-pump sobs an 'heaves,

    McAndrew's Hymn 1893

  • The crank-throws give the double-bass, the feed-pump sobs an 'heaves,

    James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877

  • "Put your engine in the house and take down the feed-pump you were complaining about.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

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