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Pump
·noun A low shoe with a thin sole.
II. Pump ·vi To work, or raise water, a pump.
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pump
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
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pump
A well-known machine used for drawing water from the sea, or discharging it from the ship's pump-wel...
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Foot
·noun The lower edge of a sail.
II. Foot ·vt The size or strike with the talon.
III. Foot ·vt To r...
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foot
The lower end of a mast or sail. Also, the general name of infantry soldiers. Also, the measure of 1...
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Air pump
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
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Chain pump
·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...
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Force pump
·- A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the...
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Hogger-pump
·noun The for pump in the pit.
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Sprengel pump
·- A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow t...
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Aldgate Pump
Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site.
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Pump Court
1) On the north side of Skinner Street at No.62 Snow Hill (Lockie, iS16). Removed for the formation ...
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Pump Yard
1) South-west out of Gravel Lane, not far from the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without. In Portsoke...
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pump water
He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face.
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purser's pump
A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump.
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air-pump
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
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bilge-pump
A small pump used for carrying off the water which may lodge about the lee-bilge, so as not to be un...
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burr-pump
A name of the bilge-pump.
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chain-pump
This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...
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dutch pump
A punishment so contrived that, if the prisoner would not pump hard, he was drowned.
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feed-pump
The contrivance by which the boilers of a steamer are supplied with water from the hot-well, while t...
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forcing-pump
Any pump used to force water beyond that force demanded to deliver at its level, as fire-engines, &c...
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hand-pump
The common movable pump for obtaining fresh water, &c., from tanks or casks.
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head-pump
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
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monkey-pump
Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...
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pump-barrel
The wooden tube which forms the body of the machine, and wherein the piston moves.
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pump-bolts
Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear.
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pump-brake
The handle or lever of the old and simplest form of pump.
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pump-carlines
The framing or partners on the upper deck, between which the pumps pass into the wells.
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pump-chains
The chains to which the discs, &c., are attached in the chain-pump.
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pump-cisterns
Are used to prevent chips and other matters getting to, and fouling the action of, the chain-pumps.
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pump-coat
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...
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pump-dales
Pipes or long wooden spouts extending from the chain-pumps across the ship, and through each side, s...
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pump-gear
A term implying any materials requisite for fitting or repairing the pumps, as boxes, leather, &c.
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pump-hook
An iron rod with an eye and a hook, used for drawing out the lower pump-box when requisite.
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pump ship!
The order to the crew to work the pumps to clear the hold of water.
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pump-spear
The rod of iron to which the upper box is attached and to the upper end of which the brake is pinned...
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pump sucks
The pump sucks is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there come...
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pump-tacks
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes.
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Ampere foot
·add. ·- A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a cur...
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Bear's-foot
·noun A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell ...
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Bird's-foot
·noun A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, ...
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Candle foot
·add. ·- The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot;
— used a...
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Cat's-foot
·noun A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
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Crow's-foot
·noun ·same·as Bird's-mouth.
II. Crow's-foot ·noun A <<Caltrop>>.
III. Crow's-foot ·noun The wrink...
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Dove's-foot
·noun The <<Columbine>>.
II. Dove's-foot ·noun A small annual species of Geranium, native in Englan...
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Duck's-foot
·noun The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
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Flat foot
·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...
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Fleet-foot
·adj Swift of foot.
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Foot candle
·add. ·- The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot.
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Foot Guards
·pl Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
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Foot pound
·- A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against ...
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Foot poundal
·- A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the fo...
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Foot ton
·add. ·- A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force...
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Foot valve
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
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Foot-sore
·adj Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
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Hen's-foot
·noun An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
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Light-foot
·adj ·Alt. of Light-footed.
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Lion's foot
·- The <<Edelweiss>>.
II. Lion's foot ·- A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which severa...
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Polt-foot
·adj ·Alt. of Polt-footed.
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Sheep's-foot
·noun A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at ...
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Single-foot
·noun An irregular gait of a horse;
— called also single-footed pace. ·see <<Single>>, ·vi.
II. Si...
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Tiger's-foot
·noun A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fash...
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Tiger-foot
·noun ·same·as Tiger's-foot.
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Two-foot
·adj Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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Wolf's-foot
·noun Club moss. ·see <<Lycopodium>>.
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cat's foot
To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and ca...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cloven foot
To spy the cloven foot in any business; to discover some roguery or something bad in it: a saying th...
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foot pads
Rogues who rob on foot.
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foot wabbler
A contemptuous appellation for a foot soldier, commonly used by the cavalry.
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to pull foot
To walk fast; to run.
I look'd up; it was another shower, by Gosh. I pulls foot for dear life.--Sam...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-foot
(Genus, polyphemus. Lamarck.) The common name of a crustacea, found in our waters from Massachusetts...
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cats-foot
ground-ivy. Northumb.
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foot-ale
beverage required from one entering on a new occupation. N.
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crow-foot
A number of small lines spreading out from an uvrou or long block, used to suspend the awnings by, o...
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foot-bank
Synonymous with banquette (which see).
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foot-board
The same as gang-board, but not so sailor-like. (See stretchers.)
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foot-boat
A west-country term for a boat used solely to convey foot passengers.
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foot-hooks
Synonymous with futtocks.
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foot-rails
Narrow mouldings raised on a vessel's stern.
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foot-rope
The rope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. (See bolt-rope.)
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foot-ropes
Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...
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foot-valve
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
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foot-waling
The inside planking or lining of a ship over the floor-timbers; it is intended to prevent any part o...
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fore-foot
The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and ...
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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under foot
Under the ship's bottom; said of an anchor which is dropped while she has head-way. An anchor is oft...
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Pump Court, Alley
Near Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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fetching the pump
Pouring water into the upper part in order to expel the air contained between the lower box and that...
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oscillating pump-spear
A contrivance by which the pumps of a large vessel are worked, connected with a crank-shaft and fly-...
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Hare's-foot fern
·- A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock;
— whence the name.
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Five Foot Lane
1) See Fye Foot Lane.
2) Out of Bread Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Qy. = Fye Foot Lane (q.v.).
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Fye Foot Lane
North out of Upper Thames Street at No. 208 (P.O. Directory). Leading to Lambeth Hill. In Queenhithe...
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Fyve Foot Lane
See Fye Foot Lane.
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every foot anon
every now and then. Norf. and Stiff.
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foot it in
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holdi...
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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...
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foot-hook-shrouds
See futtock-shrouds
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pull foot, to
To hasten along; to run.
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Pump in Lime Street
Set up in 1576 partly at the charges of the parish of St. Andrew) partly at the charges of the Chamb...
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Pump Yard, Townsend Lane
See Pump Court.
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barrel of a pump
The wooden tube which forms the body of the engine.
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ears of a pump
The support of the bolt for the handle or break.
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hood of a pump
A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump.
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bird's-foot sea-star
The Palmipes membranaceus, one of the Asterinidæ, with a flat thin pentagonal body, of a bright scar...
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let go under foot
See under foot.
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New Pump Court, Moor Lane
See Pump Court.
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Pump in Bishopsgate Ward Within
" A pump where sometimes was a fayre wel with two buckets by the east end of St. Martin Outwich" (S....
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foot-clue of a hammock
See hammock.
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shoe of the fore-foot
See fore-foot, gripe, horse.
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Five Foot Court, Old Fish Street Hill
See Five Foot Lane.
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