pump boxn.
/ˈpʌm(p) bɒks/, U.S. /ˈpəmp ˌbɑks/ The case or housing of a pump (originally a ship's pump), or the valve of a pump. Also: the piston of a simple reciprocating pump, typically cylindrical. Cf. box n.2 8.
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1422–3 Acct. (P.R.O.:E364/57) m.9-9v Ij pompeboxes j calig' ferri pro le pompstaffe.
1422–7 in S. Rose Navy of Lancastrian Kings (1982) 100 [For 4] pompe boxes.
1426–7 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1951) I. 178 Et in ij. Pomp'boxes clauis..et iij. petris de towe.
1590 in K. R. Andrews Eng. Privateering Voy. W. Indies 1588–95 (1959) 77 14 lounge pumpboxes.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 5 In extraordinary pumping..the pump boxes..do faile us.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 443 The two hollow sides were made big enough to contain a Pump-box in the midst of them both.
1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 19 July in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 233 He..imitated a Carpenter & Corker, but..could hardly leather a pump-box.
1799 H. Neuman Marine Pocket-dict. Pump-box.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1829/1 The casings of the upper and lower valves are the upper and lower pump-boxes.
1929 Times 29 Oct. p. xx/6 At the press the ink first comes into a pump box located outside the press frames on one side of the machine.
1963 Science 6 Dec. 1379/3 The pump box has mounted in its top plate a syringe holder, which holds the syringe around its barrel in the manner in which it is held when used by hand.
2006 PR Newswire (Nexis) 15 Feb. Instead of routing the flush water through a drain in the floor, the macerating system moves it to a special pump box, usually located on the floor between the toilet and the wall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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