chain pump

English

Noun

chain pump (plural chain pumps)

1. A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum.
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar‎^[1], London, pages 7–8:

     […] when we came out to Sea [the Ship] prov’d so very leaky, that we were oblig’d to keep two Chain-pumps continually at Work: