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pumping |
2 definitions found 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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