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Pump house   /pəmp haʊs/   Listen
Pump house

noun
1.
A house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated.  Synonym: pumping station.






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"Pump house" Quotes from Famous Books



... stations are substantial structures of brick, roofed with iron. The boiler house is removed some distance from the engine house for greater safety from fire; the building, about 40 by 50 feet, contains from six to seven tubular boilers, each 5 by 14 feet, and containing 80 three-inch tubes. The pump house is a similar brick structure about 40 by 60 feet, and contains the battery of pumping engines to be described later. At each station are two iron tanks, 90 feet in diameter and 30 feet high; into these tanks the oil is delivered from the preceding ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various



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