wind pump
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wind pump
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012
Over the purr of the motor we heard a wind pump squeaking as it turned and a calf bawling and the katydids starting up in a grove of walnut trees.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
And you might get that wind pump going in case we get a little breeze later this afternoon.
From Make Mine Homogenized by Freas, Kelly
The second man pumped a wind pump with a living red wind through the red mouth.
From Rootabaga Stories by Petersham, Maud Fuller
"Does the wind pump the water?" asked Kat.
From The Dutch Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
