= FORCE-PUMP.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Pump.… The forcing Pump, which acts by mere impulse or protrusion, raises water to any height at pleasure.
1800. Vince, Hydrostat., viii. (1806), 90. Some kinds of forcing pumps, &c. act by condensed air.
1842. H. Rogers, Ess., I. i. 26. His [Fuller’s] mind was a fountain, not a forcing-pump.
