(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:21:24

Spreng"el pump` (?). Physics

A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.

 

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