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The phrase "a hand pump" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of pump that is operated by hand, often used for tasks like inflating tires or drawing water.
Example: "To inflate the bicycle tires, I used a hand pump that I found in the garage."
Alternatives: "manual pump" or "hand-operated pump".
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A hand pump for the floats is $4.95.
Nick Crosbie has a bouncing baby at one foot and a hand pump at the other.
Water is drawn from a hand pump above a tube well.
Purchase spray-on oil, or use a hand pump to spray your own.
Their well is the standard device, a small cylinder sunk into the earth with a hand pump above ground.
The most severe case, Mohammed Amin, was breathing with the aid of a hand pump that his wife squeezed silently.
Someone had puffed them up with a hand pump so when released they skittered in the breeze along the ground.
There was a hand pump for drinking water from a well, and an outhouse by the rear of the garden.
Blackwoods Campground, which has a hand pump for water, chemical toilets and collection bins for refuse, is open all winter (free till the ground thaws).
In a demonstration of beekeeping practice, Mr. Gannon and his son filled a hive with smoke, using a bee smoker, a small device equipped with a hand pump.
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That included hauling water from a hand-pump well, using a pit latrine in the woods and trying not to be too concerned about spiders and snakes.
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