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stirrup pump

NOUN
  1. a hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires

How To Use stirrup pump In A Sentence

  • The last issue had a good letter from someone who signed himself ‘Conscript’, describing how he and his comrades were forced to waste their time in polishing brass, blacking the rubber hoses on stirrup pumps with boot polish, scraping broom handles with razor blades, and so on. As I Please
  • Reports arrived to say incendiaries had set fire to the top of the telephone exchange and once again stirrup pumps and buckets of water were rushed upstairs where the ceiling above the equipment was burning steadily.
  • They cut two metres of thatch from around the chimney and used a stirrup pump to dowse the smouldering straw.
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