donkey pump

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   a supplementary pump available if needed

   Synonymsauxiliary pump

   Broaderpump

Questions about donkey pump

What does donkey pump mean?

donkey pump means "a supplementary pump available if needed".

What is another word for donkey pump?

Close synonyms include auxiliary pump. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is donkey pump a common word?

donkey pump is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.