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pump-action

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1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (of a shotgun or other repeating firearm) operated by a slide-action mechanism feeding ammunition from a magazine under the barrel into the breech

2. spraying or dispensing liquid by means of a pump rather than using a propellant

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