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Definition of Pump house
1. Noun. A house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pump House
Literary usage of Pump house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"11 Am City 13:284-6 O '15 Making a pump house adorn a park. J: P. adequate municipal
water supply. VS Berry. 11 Am City 13:215-15 O '15 Municipal ownership ..."
2. Farm Buildings by William Arthur Foster, Deane G. Carter (1922)
"They include smoke house, pump house, milk house or dairy room, spring house,
scale shelter, seed house, and shelters. Construction.—All of these structures ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1860)
"pump house. and should be tied to its foundation by means of iron rods, ...
The second is a design for a pump house, built of rough twigs in the same manner ..."
4. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"Crude oil pump-house. 3. Crude oil pipe-line. 7. Preheating battery. 6. ...
Electrical pump-house. 37. Benzine fractionation. 36. Supply tanks. 15. ..."
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