2. Verb. (third-person singular of sump) ¹
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Definition of Sumps
1. sump [n] - See also: sump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumps
Literary usage of Sumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket & Mining Practice: With an Appendix on by Samuel John Truscott (1907)
"sumps, Lodges.—At certain places in a vertical shaft, lodges or sumps are cut to
... sumps, with the exception of that one which holds the surface water, ..."
2. The Efficiency of Pumps and Ejectors by Edward Cyril Bowden-Smith (1920)
"sumps : DANGERS FROM EXPLOSION. At times it is also exceedingly dangerous ...
Numerous sewage sumps' should be avoided, especially in cities where they have ..."
3. The Efficiency of Pumps and Ejectors by Edward Cyril Bowden-Smith (1920)
"sumps : DANGERS FROM EXPLOSION. At times it is also exceedingly ... Numerous sewage
sumps should be avoided, especially in cities where they have to be ..."
4. The Cyanide Handbook by John Edward Clennell (1915)
"SECTION IV HANDLING OF SOLUTIONS (A) sumps AND STORAGE TANKS IN addition ...
In the latter arrangement the storage tanks are commonly described as "sumps. ..."
5. A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1892)
"... Small Shafts, Adits, Shafts, and Levels along Lode, sumps. A CURIOUS chapter
might be written on the superstitious and magical means by which, ..."
6. A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1881)
"... Small Shafts, Adits, Shafts, and Levels along Lode, sumps. A CURIOUS chapter
might be written on the superstitious and magical means by which, ..."
7. Steam Power Plant Piping System: Their Design, Installation and Maintenance by William Lorenzo Morris (1909)
"... B, should be laid at one time. FIG. 385 (Un-i). FIG. 386 (Uiz-i). Class Ul2 —
Tile Sewers — sumps. It is sometimes impossible to ..."
8. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"The drainage system will consist of drains throughout the tunnel, sumps at
intervals, pumps at the sumps and discharge pipes from the pumps to the shaft. ..."
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