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air-pump
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Air
·noun Intelligence; information.
II. Air ·noun Odoriferous or contaminated air.
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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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Air
The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This w...
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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...
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air
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe. It penetrates and...
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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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Air bed
·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
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Air bladder
·- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
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Air brake
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air.
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Air brush
·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.
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Air cell
·- A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
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Air chamber
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
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Air cock
·- A faucet to allow escape of air.
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Air cooling
·add. ·- In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating ...
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Air drill
·- A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
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Air engine
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
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Air gap
·add. ·- An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the spa...
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Air gas
·- ·see under <<Gas>>.
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Air hole
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
II. Air hole ·- A hole to admit o...
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Air jacket
·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...
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Air level
·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>.
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Air line
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds.
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Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe.
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Air plant
·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>.
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Air poise
·- An instrument to measure the weight of air.
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Air sac
·- One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connec...
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Air shaft
·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
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Air stove
·- A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and...
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Air vessel
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...
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Air-built
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Air-drawn
·adj Drawn in air; imaginary.
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Air-slacked
·adj Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
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Air-tight
·noun A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
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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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Liquid air
·add. ·- A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied o...
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Open-air
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
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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-bladder
A vesicle containing gas, situated immediately beneath the spinal column in most fish, and often com...
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air-braving
Defying the winds.
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air-cone
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
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air-funnel
A cavity formed by omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, to admit fresh air into the ...
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
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air-jacket
A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.)
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air-pipes
Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat.
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air-ports
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
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air-scuttles
The same as air-ports.
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air-shafts
Vertical holes made in mining, to supply the adits with fresh air. Wooden shafts are sometimes adopt...
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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
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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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foul air
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
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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-foot
The lower part, or well-end, of a pump.
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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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Pump Court, Alley
Near Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
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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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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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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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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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