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語源

From pump +‎ house.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs/

名詞

pumphouse (plural pumphouses)

1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
   1. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
   2. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).
   • 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:

     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.

上位語

• house

関連する語

• pumping station
• springhouse