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Meaning of pumphouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs

Definitions

  1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus
  2. A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
  3. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
  4. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).

Examples

“On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Pumphrey Pumping pumping iron pumping lemma pumping station pumping time

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