The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulsometer
Pulsometer \Pul*som"e*ter\, n. [Pulse + -meter.]
A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.
A pulsimeter.
Wiktionary
pulsometer
n. A vacuum pump or hydrotrope.
Usage examples of "pulsometer".
Hopkins, who was a first-class fellow, with a hand-clasp like a polar bear, a heart like a steam pulsometer, and a face that looked as if it might have been used for the butting post at the end of the world.
He put away the pulsometer, after checking its standard settings to make last-minute certain that there was nothing wrong with it, and sat down.