Sand Pump
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“1. In rope-drilling, a cylinder, provided with a valve at the bottom, which is lowered into the drill-hole from time to time to remove the pulverized rock, or sludge. Also called a sludger. 2. A powerful water-jet with an annular nozle inclosing a tube which is sunk in loose sand, and operates as an injector to lift the sand with the water which discharges back through the tube. a. sand to be removed, b. suction-pipe, c. induction-pipe, d. discharge-pipe” —Whitney, 1889
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water, tube, hydraulic, pipe, sand, lift, pump, valve, Annular, jet, hydraulics, nozzle, suction pipe, discharge pipe, induction pipe, injector, sludge, sludger, water jetSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5332
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