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单词 pumphouse
释义

pumphouse

English

Alternative forms

  • pump house

Etymology

pump + house

Noun

pumphouse (plural pumphouses)

  1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
  2. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
  3. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).
    • 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:
      On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.

Hypernyms

  • house
  • pumping station
  • springhouse
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