Pump

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1. Noun

A low shoe with a thin sole.

2. Noun

An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.

3. Verb

To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

4. Verb

To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

5. Verb

Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

6. Verb

To work, or raise water, a pump.

7. Noun

the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
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