Word Finder - sump

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A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.

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The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.

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A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.

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The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.

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The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).

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An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.

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Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.

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This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.

Drainage channels are provided, usually along the main haulage roads, by which the water flows to a sump excavated at the pump shaft.

Cars using slick tires must be fitted with a dry sump.

When mine water is acid the working parts of the pump must be lined with or made of bronze or other non-corrosive material; or the acid may be neutralized by adding lime in the sump.

The lower reaches have streams and sump bypasses which are still going.

What is a radon sump in a new building?

The sump is then connected to the Old Main Line by a brick culvert that runs under the locks.

Once through the sump, declared a real hoot by all concerned, we had a quick crawl around the large chambers.

In some small houses, even a large sump has proved inadequate.

This allowed the drive pinion to fall into the sump causing a large fracture through which the oil escaped.

Use a sharp Stanley knife to cut slits in the liner across the internal width of the drain sump.

Simon Brooks dived the upstream sump at the end of the final passage.

In my minds eye the name Olly's perched sump ' were already written on the survey.

One interesting prospect is the possibility of getting into a high level in Muxa, to bypass the sump.

It took a dozen cavers about eight hours to drain the sump of water.

Alan Clegg was drowned in Lancaster Hole downstream sump.

A third way on from the small chamber is a small tubular passage which emerges in a larger boulder chamber with a static sump.

Eventually seven cavers gathered at the terminal sump to watch Rick assemble his swag.

The water emerges from a low crawl over boulders to the left which can be followed for 60m to an inlet sump.

The terminal sump is in the pool, which contains a muddy ledge on the right hand side.

A bug hunting trip as far as the mud sump.

Upstream through beautiful blue dolly tubs, a series of shallow lakes led to a wide sump pool held back by extensive gravel banks.

Where the water does not accumulate very rapidly it is a common practice to allow it to collect in a pit or sump below the working bottom of the shaft, and to draw it off in a water tub or" hoppet "by the main engine, when the latter is not employed in raising coal.

Cnoc nan Uamh - Simon Brooks with support from Fraser Simpson and John Heathcote dug his way into the static sump in May.

Having visited the sump, it 's now a stomp up the Master Cave.

Reached sump via 75 ' pitch down boulder slope.

The Pegaso engine uses Aprilia 's acclaimed dry sump lubrication system.

We searched the main chamber for a possible sump bypass.

The sump plug will be missing, believed dead.

The sump pool in Wilf Taylor 's Passage is usually static.

Many Hotpoint washing machines have a filter inside the sump hose which gets blocked.

All work simultaneously, each raising the water to a tank or sump above, whence it is taken by the next pump of the system, and finally discharged at the surface.

This method is rarely practised except by the rollers of zinc. A certain amount of refined zinc can be dipped from the furnace; a further amount, nearly free from iron, can be liquated out of the ingots cast from the bottom of the bath in a subsequent slow remelting, and it is sometimes possible to eliminate a zinciferous lead which collects in the sump of the furnace.

Flooding can often be solved by installing a sump pump.