The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pumping \Pump"ing\, a. & n. from pump.
Pumping engine, a steam engine and pump combined for raising water. See Steam engine.
Usage examples of "pumping engine".
He felt as if days had gone by since Sandy and he first staggered out onto the deck to try to re-start the pumping engine.
Cheers rang out behind him, first from the crews who'd built the pumping engine, then from hundreds of islanders behind them, most of whom had spent pick-and-shovel time on the basin that would hold the water.
That's why some of the merchants in town are getting up a subscription for the acquisition of a pumping engine.
The rhythmic thump and suck of a pumping engine sounded above the muffled thunder of the waves in the mouth of the adit.
The steam engine, even the primitive pumping engine, could not develop before sheet iron was available.