Word Meanings - SUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion. Ray. 2. The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there. 3. A pond of water for salt

Additional info about word: SUMP

A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion. Ray. 2. The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there. 3. A pond of water for salt works. Knight. 4. A puddle or dirty pool. Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. -- Sump men , the men who sink the sump in a mine.

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