Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The barrel or body in which the piston of a pump works; the water-cylinder of a pumping-engine; the cylinder of a pump.
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Examples
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This pump is based on parts of the 50 ton jack made by NIKE and a specially made pump-cylinder and pump-plunger.
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I could hardly have done it just then, though, for Mike solicited an audience at the back door, and reported that Budge had given the carriage-sponge to the goat, put handfuls of oats into the pump-cylinder, pulled hairs out of the black mare's tail, and with a sharp nail drawn pictures on the enamel of the carriage - body.
Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881
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