pumper

[ puhm-per ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that pumps.

  2. a fire truck specially equipped to pump water at the site of a fire.

Origin of pumper

1
First recorded in 1650–60; pump1 + -er1

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How to use pumper in a sentence

  • The "organ beater" of bygone days was invariably accompanied by the "organ pumper," often by several of them.

  • This meant that the person who pumped must remember to fill a can of water and leave it for the next pumper.

  • Yet with Yoricks inconsequence, the narrator is led aside and exclaims at the end of this chapter, But where is pumper?

    Laurence Sterne in Germany | Harvey Waterman Thayer
  • The servant pumper is a man of feeling, who grieves that the horses trod the dewdrops from the blades of grass.

    Laurence Sterne in Germany | Harvey Waterman Thayer
  • I was startled because this was almost the only man except the pumper and the train crews that had been there since I came.

    Danger Signals | John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady