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Force pump   /fɔrs pəmp/   Listen
Force pump

noun
1.
Pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure.





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"Force pump" Quotes from Famous Books



... intestines into the hinder parts of the body, while the soluble portions are taken up into the blood. The blood is contained in a vast system of pipes, spreading through the whole body, connected with a force pump,—the heart,—which, by its position and by the contractions of its valves, keeps the blood constantly circulating in one direction, never allowing it to rest; and then, by means of this circulation of the blood, laden ...
— The Present Condition of Organic Nature • Thomas H. Huxley


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