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Definition of Pumplike
1. resembling a pump [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pumplike
Literary usage of Pumplike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rowing and Track Athletics by Samuel Crowther, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1905)
"... from a distance resembled a youthful waterspout ; Harvard was at thirty-seven
with a long, hard swing that contrasted with the pumplike action of Yale. ..."
2. The International Journal of Orthodontia (1916)
"... against the peri-apical abscess and the lesion around the root (Fig. 6),
app!}- ing by a pumplike action thousands of pounds in the course of ..."
3. Buffalo Medical Journal (1907)
"errors of antiquity, describing next the behavior of the heart in the living
animal, showing its automatic pumplike structure, its alternate contractions ..."
4. Advanced First-aid Instructions for Miners: A Report on Standardization by George H. Halberstadt, United States Bureau of Mines, August F. Knoefel, William Aloysius Lynott, Walter Scott Rountree, Matthew Joseph Shields (1917)
"4), and it is kept moving by the pumplike action of the heart. It also furnishes
heat and oxygen to all parts of the body and carries waste matter from all ..."
5. Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"Milkmen, pumplike movement of their arms, 2, 156. Mill, John Stuart, a friend to
the North in Civil war, 8, 99 ; suggests that the rebellion should ..."
6. The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park (1912)
"... describing next the behavior of the heart in the living animal, showing its
automatic pumplike structure, its alternate contractions and the other ..."
7. The Animal Kingdom: Considered Anatomically, Physically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"And so when it reaches the vertebral column, it rises both outside and inside;
and by a kind of pumplike action as of a syringe, it is drawn up all the way ..."
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