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PUMP WELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pump well mean?
• PUMP WELL (noun)
The noun PUMP WELL has 1 sense:
1. an enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumps
Familiarity information: PUMP WELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumps
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pump well" is a kind of...):
well (an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps)
Context examples
Other kinds of heart problems may happen to the valves in the heart, or the heart may not pump well and cause heart failure.
(Heart Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
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