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  • noun Plural form of handpump.

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Examples

  • The contract would help the brewery company reduce its inventory of equipment in pubs such as handpumps used to dispense drinks from 7 million pound sterling to 4 million pound sterling.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • The contract would help the brewery company reduce its inventory of equipment in pubs such as handpumps used to dispense drinks from 7 million pound sterling to 4 million pound sterling.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • By working with local organizations, FACE Africa helped to build wells, install handpumps, construct latrines and educate the community in hygiene and sanitation.

    A Liberian Refugee's Clean Water Mission The Huffington Post 2011

  • By working with local organizations, FACE Africa helped to build wells, install handpumps, construct latrines and educate the community in hygiene and sanitation.

    A Liberian Refugee's Clean Water Mission The Huffington Post 2011

  • The pub served Bass, Brains Bitter and Dark and when the driptrays below the handpumps were full, they were emptied into buckets behind the bar.

    Newport steps further into the Abyss: Fewer pubs and more JD Wetherspoons supermarkets in pub clothing. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Not true at all, the strengths are all labeled on the bottles, same with handpumps.

    The Independent - A second rate rag staffed by lazy hacks who take HM Govt spin on beer evils as fact. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Rates of actual extraction are low and most boreholes are fitted with handpumps with capacities between 0.6 and 1.2 m3/hr depending on the pumping head.

    Water profile of Uganda 2008

  • UNICEF was also drilling thousands of wells fitted with handpumps, just one of which could serve five hundred families.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • UNICEF was also drilling thousands of wells fitted with handpumps, just one of which could serve five hundred families.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • UNICEF was also drilling thousands of wells fitted with handpumps, just one of which could serve five hundred families.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

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