hydropump

plural hydropumps

1. A hydraulic pump.

   An adequate Diesel engine has been selected which, via gearbox, drives hydropumps for machine operation and movement.

   2012, Dinko Mikulic, Design of Demining Machines, page 86

   2 more examples

   This is because of the increased pulling power of the retro jet which would make manual retraction unduly laborious. A hydropump has therefore been fitted that is simply operated by a clutch lever giving variable speed of retraction.

   1980, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants Operator's Newsletter

   Professor N. K. Vereshchagin, a palaeontologist from Leningrad who joined the expedition, discovered the archaeological component at the site when using a hydropump to expose a bone-rich horizon of the "cemetery."

   1996, Frederick Hadleigh West, Constance F. West, John F. Hoffecker, American Beginnings