† 1. An air-pump. Obs.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., Proem 12. A Sucking Pump, or as we formerly call’d it, an Air Pump.
2. A suction pump. Now rare.
1660. D’acres, Art Water-drawing, 5. As it is every day to be seen in sucking Pumps, whose water will not follow the Bucket much above the said hight.
1707. Mortimer, Husbandry (1721), I. 92. Those continual Repairs and Mendings, that the least Defects in Sucking-pumps are constantly requiring.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 116. A contrivance for converting the common sucking-pump into a lifting-pump.
1830. Herschel, Study Nat. Phil., III. i. 228. On the occasion of a sucking-pump refusing to draw water above a certain height.
