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Sump
Definitions
- 1 A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- 2 a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it wordnet
- 3 The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- 4 a well or other hole in which water has collected wordnet
- 5 A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
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- 6 an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine wordnet
- 7 The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- 8 The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- 9 An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- 10 A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge. Scotland
"then, seating himself thus, he replied to him of the east.—'Sounding sump o' rain Saunders Creeshmeloof—saw ye ever a drap o' rain for eight and forty hours after the bonnie sinking sun that sat sae red and sae lang on the summit of Blackwood hills this blessed afternoon? That starry plow o' thine is […]'"
- 1 Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion. intransitive
"We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres."
Etymology
From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump from Old Saxon *sump, from Proto-West Germanic *sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Doublet of swamp.
From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump from Old Saxon *sump, from Proto-West Germanic *sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Doublet of swamp.
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