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Definition of Hand pump
1. Noun. A pump worked by hand.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Pump
Literary usage of Hand pump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1916)
"The hand pump stop cock handle should be turned to the front when the pump is
not in use. To obtain pressure by the hand pump, turn the hand pump stop cock ..."
2. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1910)
"The left handle in the in' dl. row opens the oil lead from the hand pump to the
engine steam cheat. The middle handle controls the stop valve in the line ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1871)
"A hydraulic packing press and hand pump form the machinery for packing the cloth
previous to its being sent away to the merchant or customer. ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"pompe à bras, hand pump. — à huile, oil pump. ... de Gay~Lussac, a simple hand
pump for suction and pressure. — de robinet, glass-blowing machine. ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1912)
"5 steam boiler. pump. hand pump. domestic. flows. not used. Geologic horizon and
character of water-beds. Trent formation; shell- rock. ..."
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