A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump.
·noun A low shoe with a thin sole. II. Pump ·vi To work, or raise water, a pump. III. Pump ·vt To ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pum...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A well-known machine used for drawing water from the sea, or discharging it from the ship's pump-wel...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The smallest dip-candle. ...
Sneers. ...
An assumed one. During the war, when pressed men caught at every opportunity to desert, they adopted...
The weight formerly used in the navy, by which the purser retained an eighth for waste, and the men ...
"Like a purser's shirt on a handspike;" a comparison for clothes fitting loosely. ...
The official who superintended and noted down the exact quantity and species of provisions issued to...
A slop article, which stretched to any amount put into it. (See show a leg!.) ...
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...
·- A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the...
·noun The for pump in the pit. ...
·- A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow t...
Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site. There was a well called " Alegate well...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) On the north side of Skinner Street at No.62 Snow Hill (Lockie, iS16). Removed for the formation ...
1) South-west out of Gravel Lane, not far from the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without. In Portsoke...
He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face. ...
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
A small pump used for carrying off the water which may lodge about the lee-bilge, so as not to be un...
A name of the bilge-pump. ...
This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...
A punishment so contrived that, if the prisoner would not pump hard, he was drowned. ...
The contrivance by which the boilers of a steamer are supplied with water from the hot-well, while t...
Any pump used to force water beyond that force demanded to deliver at its level, as fire-engines, &c...
The common movable pump for obtaining fresh water, &c., from tanks or casks. ...
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...
The wooden tube which forms the body of the machine, and wherein the piston moves. ...
Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear. ...
The handle or lever of the old and simplest form of pump. ...
The framing or partners on the upper deck, between which the pumps pass into the wells. ...
The chains to which the discs, &c., are attached in the chain-pump. ...
Are used to prevent chips and other matters getting to, and fouling the action of, the chain-pumps. ...
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...
Pipes or long wooden spouts extending from the chain-pumps across the ship, and through each side, s...
The lower part, or well-end, of a pump. ...
A term implying any materials requisite for fitting or repairing the pumps, as boxes, leather, &c. ...
An iron rod with an eye and a hook, used for drawing out the lower pump-box when requisite. ...
The order to the crew to work the pumps to clear the hold of water. ...
The rod of iron to which the upper box is attached and to the upper end of which the brake is pinned...
The pump sucks is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there come...
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...
Near Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...
Pouring water into the upper part in order to expel the air contained between the lower box and that...
A contrivance by which the pumps of a large vessel are worked, connected with a crank-shaft and fly-...
Hypocritical and satirical sneers. ...
Set up in 1576 partly at the charges of the parish of St. Andrew) partly at the charges of the Chamb...
See Pump Court. ...
The wooden tube which forms the body of the engine. ...
The support of the bolt for the handle or break. ...
A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump. ...
" A pump where sometimes was a fayre wel with two buckets by the east end of St. Martin Outwich" (S....