Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A valve in a pump; a device to keep the fluid from flowing in an undesired direction.
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Examples
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It was all he could do to take care of the steam end of the pump; another man was needed to look after the lower end, where the pump-valve worked in another vertical cylinder.
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