Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pump for pumping oil under pressure through a pipe-line to a burner or to an oil-engine.
- noun A sinking-pump for raising oil from a non-flowing well.
- noun In machinery, a pump to raise oil from a reservoir and discharge it upon a journal.
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Examples
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These figures are the result of clever engineering, such as an oil-pump that works only when required, and an energy recovery system that claws back little slugs of juice when coasting and braking.
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Land Rover has developed a unique, intelligent oil-pump pressure relief valve (PRV) which senses oil pressure deep in the engine's oil galleries to more accurately control oil pump delivery.
Autoblog 2009
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Land Rover has developed a unique, intelligent oil-pump pressure relief valve (PRV) which senses oil pressure deep in the engine's oil galleries to more accurately control oil pump delivery.
Jalopnik 2009
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Land Rover has developed a unique, intelligent oil-pump pressure relief valve (PRV) which senses oil pressure deep in the engine's oil galleries to more accurately control oil pump delivery.
Jalopnik 2009
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Land Rover has developed a unique, intelligent oil-pump pressure relief valve (PRV) which senses oil pressure deep in the engine's oil galleries to more accurately control oil pump delivery.
Jalopnik 2009
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Bowyer's last DNF came at Phoenix on Nov. 12, 2006, when he finished 33rd due to an oil-pump failure
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Jaguar has developed a unique, intelligent oil-pump pressure relief valve (PRV) which senses oil pressure deep in the engine's oil galleries to control the oil pump delivery.
Autoblog 2009
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