Definitions for chain-pump

chain-pump chain pump

Chain-Pump is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in chain-pump (-achimnppu).

Definitions for chain-pump

noun

  1. a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.

Origin of chain-pump

First recorded in 1610-20

Examples for chain-pump

The most powerful machine then in use for deep mines appears to have been the horse-powered rag and chain pump.

Right here in the middle of this inside place is a chain pump.

This apparatus is identical with the Cornish "rag and chain pump" of the same period, and we have therefore adopted that term.

The chain pump and other pumps of simple form have only been improved since Hero's day in matters of detail.

The little brook between the lakes runs along like a chain pump and contains about as many trout.

After tea they went into the garden, and there, to her amazement, she saw the high fence and the chain pump of her hallucination.

I have sometimes thought the modern endless or chain pump as perfect a fixture as any other.

Word Value for chain-pump
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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