Sentence examples for bilge pump from inspiring English sources
noun
A small pump fitted in ships and boats to pump the bilges clear of water.
I'll send them a bilge pump.
"If the bilge pump stops, you are done," said Cauchi.
He took it into the sea to Cozumel, he said, but the engine stopped running when his bilge pump failed.
Now drifting with the engine off, the boat's bilge pump was no longer active and sea water began to pour in.
He displayed, Mr. Crouse wrote, a knack "for seeming to hold a casual conversation while really sucking out information like a bilge pump".
Although there was a bilge pump onboard, it was not powerful enough to save the boat from capsizing, Mr. Lynch, 70, said.
He said the bilge pumps had stopped functioning shortly before the ferry sank.
The diesel engines powering the bilge pumps made a wall of sound.
We lash spare paddles, compasses and bilge pumps to the decks.
Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, massive bilge pumps are at work keeping water at bay.
A wind generator and solar panels provide power to this pump, bilge pumps, and the telemetry/control system.
