yabby pump
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the "yabby pump") which will be described. [...] The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales."
- "The specimens were collected with a yabby pump in Carenero lagoon, South coast of La Tortuga Island (10º53’N 65º14’W), Venezuela."
- "Penny placed the yabby pump on top of a hole in the sandflat and pulled back on the handle, sucking up mud and life."
- "The gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus were collected from burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide by digging and using a yabby pump from April 2007 to September 2008 at Susaki Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan."