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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pumping \Pump"ing\,
a. & n. from {pump}.
{Pumping engine}, a steam engine and pump combined for
raising water. See {Steam engine}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pump \Pump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pumped} (p[u^]mt; 215); p. pr
& vb n. {pumping}.]
1. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
2. To draw water, or the like from to from water by means
of a pump; as they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
3. Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money,
by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply
persistently in order to elicit something as information,
money, etc
But pump not me for politics. --Otway.
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