Crossword-Solution: AIRPUMPS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

After that it's the engine-room move, which gives the first class time to settle down and then shuts off the airpumps.

The Senior Second, going on duty at midnight that night, found his Junior railing at fate and the airpumps going.

The duck used oars before we did; and rudders were known by every fish with a tail, countless ages before human pilots handled tillers; the floats on the fishermen's nets were pre-figured in the bladders on the sea weed; the glowworm and firefly held up their light-houses before pharas or beacon-tower guided the wanderer among men; and, as long before Phipps brought over the diving bell to this country as the creation, spiders were making and using airpumps to descend into the deep.