sucking-pump

It was the failure in the attempt to make a sucking-pump act, when the working bucket was more than thirty-three feet above the surface of the water to be raised, that led observant men to study the law of atmospheric pressure, and opened a new field of research to the genius of Galileo, Torrecelli, and Boyle.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

The piston-rod is attached to one end of a lever, whilst the pump-rod works in connexion with the other, — the hydraulic action employed to raise the water being exactly similar to that of a common sucking-pump.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

American finds it as hard to call back anything over two or three centuries old as a sucking-pump to draw up water from a depth of over thirty-three feet and a fraction.

Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

American finds it as hard to call back anything over two or three centuries old as a sucking-pump to draw up water from a depth of over thirty-three feet and a fraction.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851