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Meaning of pumps

- A low shoe with a thin sole.
- An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
- To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
- To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
- Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
- To work, or raise water, a pump.

Crossword clue for pumps

- Dancing shoe
- Inflate by turning up with MP
- Inflating device
- Lift up
- Lift weights, ... iron
- Machine for raising fluids
- Refuelling machine, petrol ...
- Source of water
- Spurt
- Tyre inflator
- What causes inflation?
- Air suppliers
- Bowsers, petrol ...
- Inflaters
- Inflates by turning up with MPs
- Inner-tube inflaters
- Interrogates suspect in dancing shoes
- Lift weights, ... iron
- Lifts weights ... iron
- Lifts weights, ... iron
- Low-cut dancing shoes
- Mechanical devices to move liquids or inflate objects
- Shoes; bowsers
- Water removers