stirrup pump

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   a hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires

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Questions about stirrup pump

What does stirrup pump mean?

stirrup pump means "a hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires".

Is stirrup pump a common word?

stirrup 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.