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Entries releated to PUMP

 

ALDGATE		A draught on the pump at Aldgate; a bad bill of exchange, drawn on persons who have no effects of the drawer.
ANABAPTIST		A pickpocket caught in the fact, and punished with the discipline of the pump or horse-pond.
AQUA PUMPAGINIS		Pump water. APOTHECARIES LATIN.
DRAUGHT, or BILL, ON THE PUMP AT ALDGATE		A bad or false bill of exchange. See ALDGATE.
PARELL		Whites of eggs, bay salt, milk, and pump water, beat together, and poured into a vessel of wine to prevent its fretting.
POMPAGINIS		Aqua pompaginis; pump water. See AQUA.
PUMP		A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attempting to pump him. Pumping was also a punishment for bailiffs who attempted to act in privileged places, such as the Mint, Temple, etc. It is also a piece of discipline administered to a pickpocket caught in the fact, when there is no pond at hand. To pump ship; to make water, and sometimes to vomit. SEA PHRASE.
PUMP WATER		He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face.
PURSER'S PUMP		A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump.
STAGGERING BOB, WITH HIS YELLOW PUMPS		A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow.
SUCK		To pump. To draw from a man all be knows. The file sucked the noodle's brains: the deep one drew out of the fool all he knew.
TEMPLE PICKLING		Pumping a bailiff; a punishment formerly administered to any of that fraternity caught exercising their functions within the limits of Temple.