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noun

Sump n.

(Metal.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.

A pond of water for salt works.

A puddle or dirty pool. (Prov. Eng.)

Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water.

Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.

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"Sump" Quotes from Famous Books

... po' buckrahs down by de Wim'l'ton Road, en Mars Dugal' had de only vimya'd in de naberhood. I reckon it ain' so much so nowadays, but befo' de wah, in slab'ry times, a nigger did n' mine goin' fi' er ten mile in a night, w'en dey wuz sump'n good ter eat ...

— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt

... that kind o' talk makes me sick. You are a good Christian man, I really think; but like most cullud people you are too jam full o' patience an' hope. I'll be blessed if I don't b'lieve Job was a cullud man. I ganny, I got Indian blood in me and if they pester this kid they are goin' to hear sump'in' drap." ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... and looked for it on foot, setting his lantern down. He'd gone back quite a bit along the road, and, coming back with it, the light in his eyes, he had made a misstep, and the shaft—the old Granite Hill shaft, you know—it's close to the road. We found him in the sump at the bottom. There had been too much rain, but it is a deep shaft anyway. He kept his hold on the bag, and he kept his senses long enough to hook it onto a poor little stray pine-root above the water, where he died. ...

— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various

... SUB-SOIL DRAINS.—Sub-soil drains must be discharged into a sump or receiving tank, the contents of which must be lifted and discharged into the drainage system above the cellar floor by some approved method. Where directly sewer-connected, they must be cut off from the rest of the building and plumbing system by a brass flap valve on the ...

— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble

... is lower than the drain, all that can be done is to drain out as much as possible and pump the remaining water from a "sump" provided in a suitable position. By raising the plunge bath chamber a few feet, the bottom of bath may, in some cases, be just kept above the drain level; but steps must then be placed between it and the washing-room, and steps in such places are dangerous, ...

— The Turkish Bath - Its Design and Construction • Robert Owen Allsop