foot-pump

Yet Gervais's behaviour in recent years suggests that his ego might have spent too long attached to the celebrity foot-pump.

He just wants to be loved | Observer profile 2012

What happens is they put you completely inside a Gamow bag which they pump up with oxygen, using a foot-pump; they keep you in there at high pressure for an hour.

Where This Artist Goes, Danger Often Follows 2008

It contained no moving parts, could be powered by solar, foot-pump or pull-string chargers and housed in a waterproof case.

Laptop at $100 still too costly for poor nations: UN 2007

I soooo want one of those little foot-pump organs now.

"Not I", Said the Slut, That Happened To Be Looking In the Window fusenumber8 2006

For over a year, I've had a foot-pump battery charger for my iBook on order from Aladdin Power.

Boing Boing: June 17, 2001 - June 23, 2001 Archives 2001

There is a new foot-pump from which great things are expected.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

But, dear traveler, it is much simpler to take an air-mattress and a foot-pump.

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

It is a poor way of convincing a man that he has let you a defective machine to throw his foot-pump about his shop, and take his stock of gongs outside in order to return them through the window-panes.

The War in the Air 1906

It had been made from a bicycle foot-pump, by reversing the piston-valve, and was fitted with a glass nozzle and a small detachable glass receiver for collecting the dust, at the end of a flexible metal tube.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

I don't remember much about the specifics of our machine, except that it finished by launching the beanbag off an old metal-frame foot-pump for blowing up bike tires and soccer balls and the like.

WorldWideWaterCooler peechie 2010