WordNet
n. a house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated [syn: pumping station]
Usage examples of "pump house".
We've examined every building, every pump house, every last shack within a mile of the Operations Center.
Tony departed in the direction of the pump house, and the boys were left alone.
Lilo got into the Baither house before she let Lew take her into the pump house.
When the sun dropped below the horizon and Kitarak still hadn't returned, they flapped their robes to dry them before the night grew chilly, then settled into the protected corner of the pump house to take turns sleeping and standing guard.
I crawled to the pump house for water and that's when I found Michael.
In the center, raised like a blunt column, stood a tiny island and shattered pump house.
Then they could see that this was the pump house: in its far corner was a rusted mass of equipment recognizable as a water pump.
Back at the Hot Springs Hotel, they unloaded the dynamite from the jeep and stored it under police protection in the pump house.
Moving the clump of root camouflage, he crawled through, and was soon inside the pump house again.
We still have two little masonry outbuildings to put up, a pump house and an electrical service housing, but these won't take long and are neither urgent nor difficult-even I could lay them up.
We still have two little masonry outbuildings to put up, a pump house and an electrical service housing, but these won't take long and are neither urgent nor difficulteven I could lay them up.
The place had been either a pump house or some sort of nexus for electrical wiring.