Word Meanings - CHAINPUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.

• Water chinquapin
  The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
• Water poise
  A hydrometer.
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)
• Consistency
  The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
• Water deerlet
  See Water chevrotain.
• Water rattle
  Alt. of Water rattler
• WATERBUFFALO
  The European buffalo.
• Endlessness
  The quality of being endless; perpetuity.
• WATERMONITOR
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
• Water feather-foil
  The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
• Water shield
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• WATERCLOSET
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
• Pointed
  of Point
• WATERPILLAR
  A waterspout. [Obs.]
• Water gauge
  A wall or bank to hold water back.
• Water star grass
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• WATERDRESSING
  The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
• Raisable
  Capable of being raised.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Water ice
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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