Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The piston of the common pump, having a valve opening upward.
  • noun The casing or cap of a pump.

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Examples

  • This was the case, too, below in the waist, where the starboard timbers had been carried away nearly to the fore-chains, which probably had acted as a buffer and stayed further destruction in that direction; and it was only owing to this that the galley and pump-box had been saved, as otherwise both would have been swept overboard along with the dunnage I had noticed collected under the lee of the forecastle.

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • Carpenter had ne'er a pump-box Rigg'd nor fitt to work so had it not been for the Kind assistance of the Man of warr's people, who hearing of Our misfortune ashoar Came immediatly off and put Our Guns on board the prize, we must Certainly have Sunk, most of Our hands being ashoar.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

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