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Definition: SINKING PUMP |
SINKING PUMP1. A pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks. |
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Mining | A long, narrow pump designed for keeping a shaft dry during sinking operations. It is usually large enough to deal with 1,000 gal/min (3,780 L/min) from the greatest depth at which water will be encountered. A sinking pump must be slung from the surface and be fairly easy to raise and lower when shot firing takes place at the shaft bottom. Most are of the electrically driven centrifugal type and allow for additional stages to be fitted as the shaft depth increases. It may be suspended by a single-drum, worm-driven, capstan engine with a very slow speed.See also:borehole pump; water barrel. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SINKING PUMP |
| English words defined with "SINKING PUMP": Forcer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SINKING PUMP": bucket pump ♦ ground spears ♦ hydraulic gravel-pump mining ♦ pneumatic water barre ♦ running lift. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-m-n-n-p-p-s-u" | |
-3 letters: kingpins, pinkings, pumpkins, skimping, skipping, snipping, spunking. | |
-4 letters: impings, impugns, kingpin, kipping, minings, nipping, pigskin, pimping, pinking, pipings, pipkins, pumping, pumpkin, punkins, sinking, sipping, sniping, spiking, spuming, supping, uppings. | |
-5 letters: imping, impugn, inking, kinins, miking, mining, musing, nuking, pignus, piking, pining, pinups, piping, pipkin, puking, punkin, siping, skiing, spuing, umping, unpins, upping. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4E 4B 49 4E 47 50 55 4D 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001110 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010000 01010101 01001101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I N K I N G   P U M P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 004E 004B 0049 004E 0047 0050 0055 004D 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53434845434841250554750 |
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