Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chain pump

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

Syllables: chain pump
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum.

Example Sentences

"[…] when we came out to Sea [the Ship] prov’d so very leaky, that we were oblig’d to keep two Chain-pumps continually at Work:"

Inflected Forms

chain pumps (plural)

Questions

What does chain pump mean?: A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum.

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