stirrup pump

(Mechanical Engineering) a hand-operated vertical reciprocating pump, such as one used in fire-fighting, etc, in which the base of the cylinder is placed in a bucket of water

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stirrup pump - a hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires

pump - a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction

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I felt totally safe with the team around me, but could never imagine what it must be like with a thin suit, a stirrup pump, a bucket of water and maybe sand.

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The hand cart contained a clapped out device It was a World War II stirrup pump and a bucket of ice.

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A new thermal imaging camera was used to locate fire hotspots and a stirrup pump, introduced during World War Two to deal with incendiary bombs and still carried on all fire engines, was used to douse it.

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"My dad, clad only in his long johns, feverishly worked at the stirrup pump. I still have the tail fin of that errant fire stick."

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It's fantastic, blackout, criss-crossed tape against bomb blast at the windows, a miniature stirrup pump, everything ...' she enthuses.

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The first few times, Gerry pumped it all out, using the stirrup pump from his precious Green Goddess (so it has got its uses, after all), but eventually a trough had to be installed in another - wee-free - corner.

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"Mother had bought us our own stirrup pump and we had a sand bucket.

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Mr Kaye ignored other incendiary bombs, grabbed a stirrup pump and a bucket of sand and raced into the school to douse the flames.

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This was despite the occasional patter of shrapnel on the roof slates and paving stones, with, once in a while, the clack of a big chunk, which could kill, since nobody had a helmet, except Mr Donnelly, and he abandoned his warden's headgear, since it kept falling over his face as he worked the stirrup pump.

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