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6 words match “CHAIN PUMP”

CHAIN PUMP n.
A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.
CHAIN n.
the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. -- Chain pumps. See in the Vocabulary. -- Chain rule (Arith.), a theorem for solving numerical problems by composition of ratios, or compound proportion, by which, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each be…
CHAIN WHEEL n.
An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.
CHAPELET n.
A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.
PALLET n.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.
PATERNOSTER n.
A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.