WordNet
n. a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks [syn: gas pump, island dispenser]
Usage examples of "gasoline pump".
Ten miles away on the far side of Weissenberg, outside a blacksmith's forge and mechanic's workshop with faded signs advertising oil and tires and an antiquated gasoline pump in front, the driver of the battered truck that had just had been towed in was arguing with a man in a leather cap and grease-stained boiler suit.
As she opened fire on an Earl Bockman grown uglier than he had been boring, she thrust her left hand into the purse once more, withdrew a second pistol identical to the first, and opened fire with it, too, hoping that no round would hit a gasoline pump, sever a fuel line, and turn her into a dancing human torch more spectacular than any fabulously costumed role she had ever played on a Vegas stage.
Apparently he had been racking the hose at the gasoline pump and capping the fuel tank.
But we have a gasoline pump at our little motor-pool, and gasoline might serve to end their lives.
As he walked toward the bus, which stopped in front of Gosselin's single gasoline pump, Kurtz looked at his pocket-watch.
He started the car suddenly and backed and turned it, already going fast, neither toward the Square nor toward Mr Rouncewell's gasoline pump.
Behind her, the pump-the gasoline pump, he elaborated-clicked as numbers turned over.
Whether this method was effective, or even safe, were questions that Pedro Luz hadn't considered because the basic theory seemed unassailable: straight from bottle to vein, just like a gasoline pump.
I watched, grinning, as he stopped at the garage gasoline pump, a couple of blocks away.
The road winds out of a wash and here to your right front are a barn with attached cattle and sheep pens and a long, low building with a single gasoline pump and a line of pickup trucks in front.
That necessitated rousing the proprietor of a floating gasoline pump out of bed.
Lacey's Princely Place where a Texaco gasoline pump stands under the portico.
He had once come upon a hermit who had gained a quasi-religious power over a miserable flock of kine-keepers by possession of an ancient gasoline pump.
Ham had gotten rid of the motorist who had picked him up, and was standing beside a gasoline pump.
His idea was to find one old-time gasoline pump and restore it as a gift for his boss, Dick Dyke, at WSCO Petroleum.