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▪ I. ˈpumping, vbl. n.
[f. pump v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb pump in various senses.
† dry pumping, pumping water on any particular part for curative purposes, without immersing the body. Obs.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 421 Notwithstanding their pumping with 3 pumps, heauing out water with buckets,..the shippe was halfe full of water ere the leake could be found and stopt. 1631E. Jorden Nat. Bathes xvii. (1632) 132 The vse [of Bath waters] is either generall to the whole body, as in bathing; or particular to some one part, as in bucketing or pumping. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 154 And oh! (he cry'd) what street, what lane, but knows Our purgings, pumpings, blankettings, and blows? 1797Monthly Mag. III. 509 To pour water on those who practised what we term medical pumping. 1806Guide to Watering Places 27 Pumping in the King's and Queen's bath, 2d. each hundred strokes; at the dry pump, 4d. each hundred strokes. 1840Orig. Bath Guide 39 An apartment..for douching or dry pumping, i.e. pumping on any particular part of the body. 1900Daily News 18 Jan. 3/2 The harsher sound of the pumping of the Maxims, Hotchkiss,..and machine guns in general. Ibid. 27 July 8/5 Great Damage by Brine Pumping.
b. fig. See pump v. 7.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 91 Can Patience itselfe indure their tedious pumping for improper phrases. 1678Quack's Academy 7 A Previous pumping, by apt and wary Questions. 1809Malkin Gil Blas i. xiii. ⁋5, I got out of her, though by hard pumping, that Don Ambrosio's castle was but a short league from Ponte de Mula. 1881W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy ii, By a judicious course of pumping, I shall find out exactly how I'm situated.
c. concr. pl. Proceeds of pumping.
1800Hull Advertiser 27 Sept. 2/1 For sale by the candle,..7 casks olive pumpings.
d. attrib. and Comb., as pumping-trough, pumping-well; esp. in reference to the machinery used in raising or moving water in mines, water-works, or sewage-systems, air in refrigerators, etc., as pumping-chamber, pumping-engine, pumping-plant, pumping-shaft, pumping-station; pumping set = pump-set s.v. pump n.1 6 b.
1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 47 It may be drained dry..by Pumping, or other Engines. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 213 The plaintiff was pulled out of the pumping-trough. 1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 289/2 Being deprived of the pumping well and drain from Wapping. 1868Daily News 31 July, All the sewage..has to be lifted, and for this purpose there are four pumping stations. c1889W. Tate Princ. Mining adapted to Requirements of S. Kensington Syllabus xlvi. 398 Pumping sets for lifting water to bank vary from 8 to 24 inches, and in extreme cases 36 inches in diameter. 1893Daily News 5 July 5/7 The Wheatley seam..access to it is obtained from the pumping shaft by a cage. 1906Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 5/3 He went to the pumping-room..to ask when the refrigerator would be started. 1926Power Engineer XXI. 333 (heading) A turbine pumping set. 1957T. G. Hicks Pump Selection & Application vii. 199 (caption) Fuel-oil pumping set fitted with 5 gpm 150-psi pumps and heaters. 1962L. B. Escritt Pumping Station Equipment & Design iii. 27 Pumping sets are classed into horizontal-spindle and vertical-spindle types.
▪ II. ˈpumping, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That pumps; in quot. 1812, issuing as from a pump; in 1856, resembling the working of a pump.
1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. ix, The firemen terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow. 1856A. R. Wallace in Ann. Nat. Hist. July 27, A female Mias..uttering at intervals a loud, pumping grunt. |