pump well

1. 1.

   an enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumps

   Broaderwell

Questions about pump well

What does pump well mean?

pump well means "an enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumps".

Is pump well a common word?

pump well is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.