wobble pump

noun

, Aeronautics.

1. an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wobble pump¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle.

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