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单词 pumper
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pumpern.1

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pump n.2, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pump n.2 + -er suffix1.
Obsolete.
A person who puts pumps on someone (see pump n.2).Apparently an isolated use.
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a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women v. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 68 I was but a pumper, that is a puller on of Gentlemens Pumps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

pumpern.2

Brit. /ˈpʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈpəmpər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pump v., -er suffix1; pump n.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < pump v. + -er suffix1, and partly from pump n.1 + -er suffix1. Compare French pompier maker of pumps (1517), person who works a pump, especially a fireman (1750).
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a. A person who or thing which pumps or works a pump; spec. (a) the official in charge of a pump room at a spa; (b) a person in charge of the pumping machinery in a mine, etc.; a pumpman; (c) a person whose job it is to operate a pump (frequently with modifying word denoting the substance pumped, as gas, water, etc.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant > at a spa
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1638 J. Taylor Stripping, Whipping, & Pumping 11 I imagine you have not heard of such a mad crew of Shavers, Whippers, and politicke Pumpers.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall x The flame lasted about two minutes from the time the pumper began to draw out the air.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6127/3 The Mayor..of the City of Bath having appointed Carew Davis..Pumper of all the Bath-waters.
1749 J. Wood Ess. Descr. Bath (ed. 2) I. ii. xii. 224 The Pump House was immediately put under the Care of an Officer that bore the Name of the Pumper.
1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 647 To have gone and assisted at the ceremony of immersion,—whether as pumper or pumpee, I should not have cared.
1892 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 12 Mar. 8/2 All its members must stop work today, except a few surface men, water-pumpers and ventilator attendants.
1943 Econ. Geogr. 19 129/2 The permanent employees, such as pumpers, pipeline walkers, and gang bosses, were married men who desired to bring their families with them.
1968 Collie Mail 20 June 1/5 Pumpers [sc. workers in the coal industry] and others who..worked outside the normal hours, received a car allowance of 8c per mile.
1995 Times 6 Jan. 16/1 Applications are invited for the post of water pumper at the city's Pump Room... Bath is last thought to have had a pumper..in 1802.
2006 Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 1 b Gas pumpers lose jobs, self service becomes a staple and then station owners raise the price.
b. colloquial. Any exertion or exercise which gets the heart pumping and leaves the exerciser out of breath. Obsolete.
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1866 Coursing Cal. Spring 260 All the latter part of a pumper was in favour of Mr Mill's dog.
1880 H. Dalziel Brit. Dogs i. i. 23 Without this [sc. a good back] the dog [sc. a greyhound] could not endure the exhaustive process of the ‘pumpers’ he is submitted to.
2. U.S. An oil well from which the oil must be pumped up (in contrast to one having an abundant natural flow). Cf. gusher n. 2.
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1876 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 20 Apr. The Roy oil well is doing now fully eighteen barrels per day, and a steady gusher, and not a pumper.
1906 Times–Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 24 Feb. 5/4 Scott Mills has what shows for a good pumper in his first well in the Mays tract.
1942 G. Forbes Flush Production iii. 60 The first oil well was only a small pumper.
2002 D. D. Olien & R. M. Olien Oil in Texas v. 109 The oil..characterized the well as a small pumper.
3. Chiefly North American. A fire engine equipped with a motorized pump.
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1912 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 7/5 Chief Kenlon gave him a demonstration yesterday of Fire Engine 58, a motor-driven steam pumper.
1919 Fire & Water Engineering 16 July 140/3 Time was, when the motor pumper was still a novelty and many of the departments were still using the horse-drawn steamer to extinguish fires.
1949 J. J. Floherty Fire Alarm i. 9 Fire apparatus developed from the man-drawn hand pump to the powerful motorized pumper.
1975 New Yorker 10 Mar. 28/3 Pache showed us Aviation's current fire engine (‘It's a 1951 Ward LaFrance pumper, and it carries five hundred and fifty gallons’).
2001 S. Kane Virtual Freedom vi. 80 The red light on the pumper truck swung round and round.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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