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Pump unit
Answer for the clue "Pump unit ", 6 letters:
gallon
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Word definitions for gallon in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN tank ▪ They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them. ▪ Mr. Novak placed them in a 35 gallon tank containing three large Echinodorus Sword plants and a great deal of driftwood. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
English measure of capacity (containing four quarts), usually for liquids, late 13c., from Old North French galon , corresponding to Old French jalon , name of a liquid measure roughly equivalent to a modern gallon," which is related to (perhaps augmentative ...
Usage examples of gallon.
He drank a gallon of hot black coffee while Toby cooked him up some boiled beefcakes and waffles, with blueberries on the side.
People whispered that he drank to excess, and folks liked to repeat the Paul Bunyanesque tale that he kept a Prussian orderly near him at all times, toting a gallon drum of whiskey so Colonel Evans could have a swig anytime he wanted.
An oiler would pump across the thousands of gallons of fuel for the ship and her aircraft while helicopters would sling-load hundreds of pallets of bombs and food and the myriad of other items that kept a floating city like the Shilo able to carryout her tasks.
The Bubble possessed a trio of water desalinization plants that turned out more than ten billion gallons of fresh water every twenty-four hours, barely enough to satisfy the ever-increasing needs of Mexico, the islands, and the eastern seaboard of the United States.
On the patio was a barbeque pit made from a fifty-five gallon drum slit endways with a torch and set in a welded iron frame.
One or two grains of the permanganate of potassium will render wholesome a gallon of water containing animal impurities.
We have material, and manpower, gallons of crew-brain-swarms, software, hardware, greenware, wetware, smallware, largeware, sumware, and noware, all waiting now to merge with you.
The arithmetic of kilometers and liters against miles and gallons was too much for him while concentrating on the road.
The other one must have a hundred gallons of salt water in it, and Nav is right.
The Gaff and Slasher to look up the stairs and see that fool of a boy pinned to the wall with his neck half-wrung, but all I wanted to deal with then was a gallon of my own red ale, and this was one plaguey annoyance too many.
Romeo let me have a small glass of the red wine he served from a gallon jug.
Visitors to my kitchen often ask about the gallon jar of them I keep among my soy sauces, rice wines, and Asian vinegars.
The collection was impressive, shelves filled with growing layers of gallon, quart, and pint tins, all with the newly upgraded Smithson Sugarhouse label on the front.
She dodged past fifty-five gallon drums of carbon tetrachloride and dimethyl sulfate and burst through the rear door of the shop into an alley.
Together, the three planes could douse nearly twelve acres of the surface with the Ulva solution, dropping more than twenty-one thousand gallons of the displaced seawater onto the site in less than a minute.