Crossword clues for pumper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pumper \Pump"er\, n.
One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
--Boyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, agent noun from pump (v.). As "fire engine that pumps water," by 1915.
Wiktionary
n. 1 one who pumps something 2 (context bodybuilding slang English) steroid or other drugs taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size.
Usage examples of "pumper".
With a sigh she tried to disguise as a yawn, Anna stood, retrieved her duty belt and headed resolutely for the door into the garage where the pumper truck was housed.
Driving the pumper truck into the gloomy day, she contemplated why interviewing Raymond Barnette was of so little interest to Thigpen.
She turned the pumper truck around and headed back up the Trace toward Port Gibson.
The pumper, with horn blaring and light flashing, went back to the fire station.
The fire brigade pumper and a red car passed them flashing and blaring.
From the first cross street to the west, a four-horse steam pumper thundered around the corner and slowed to a stop.
Wood and more wood-was Gideon veered the team and narrowly avoided a collision with another steam pumper racing in the opposite direction.
Roswell firefighter Dan Dwyer, the radioman riding shotgun on the red Ward LaFrance pumper the company rolled that night along with the tanker, could see very little at first except for an oasis of white light in the center of darkness.
It directed the shaped and conditioned winds produced by the bellows pumper to the window, where they began their journey south to all points of the globe, and especially to Venice.
A horse-drawn pumper clattered up and began pouring water on the flames.
Slickers and helmets, hatchets and breathing masks, were handed out from the big pumper truck while another crew deployed the hoses.
A second fireman lay face-down further down the roof of the pumper, obviously exhausted.
So Raed waited, watching the fireman atop the pumper truck hose down flames licking out of a crushed-accordion section of one of the fallen towers, and wondering whether he was seeing something that might be real, might be true: had the two men on Tower pumper Truck No.
The woman stepped right up onto the pumper, reached the fireman lying prone on the roof before her and was so overcome she crouched down beside the man, and abruptly embraced him.
A couple of pieces of apparatus, a chemical tank and a pumper marked SALAMANDER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NO.