force pump ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
Compare lift pump. Origin of force pump First recorded in 1650–60 Examples from the Web for force pump Historical Examples of force pump
If they are produced as by a force-pump, they are an insult.
Barry Pain
This elasticity performs the function of the air-chamber of the force-pump.
Archibald Williams
Now the piston in the force-pump is about one inch in diameter.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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There was only the sound of the force-pump and the swallowing of the Eddy.
Gilbert Parker
I spray with London purple, using a force-pump, and think I have reduced the codling-moth.
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British Dictionary definitions for force pump force pump noun
- a pump that ejects fluid under pressureCompare lift pump