the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Pump
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.
(2):
(n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
(3):
(v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
(4):
(v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
(5):
(v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
(6):
(v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pump'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pump.html. 1828.
