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Suc′tion-pump.

A pump in which the plunger or bucket is placed above the level of the water, the latter rising by atmospheric pressure, as the sucker (bucket) is raised. Between the upward strokes of the bucket, a clack-valve, below the latter, falls and prevents the reflux of the water in the ascension tube. See lift-pump.

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