Crossword-Solution: SUMPS
We have 25 clues for the answer “SUMPS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Liquid-draining pits | 1 answer |
| Water pumps | 1 answer |
| Water pump types | 1 answer |
| Water pits | 1 answer |
| Water collection pits | 1 answer |
| Some pumps in the basement | 1 answer |
| Some cisterns | 1 answer |
| Places for pumps | 1 answer |
| Pits in mine shafts. | 1 answer |
| Oil traps of engines. | 1 answer |
| Mining pits. | 1 answer |
| Mine pits. | 1 answer |
| Mine drainage pits. | 1 answer |
| Liquid-drainage pits | 1 answer |
| Drains for rains | 1 answer |
| Drainage sites | 1 answer |
| Drainage pits | 1 answer |
| Collection areas | 1 answer |
| Cesspools | 1 answer |
| Basement pumps | 1 answer |
| Some reservoirs | 2 answers |
| Water collection areas | 2 answers |
| Drainage areas | 2 answers |
| Water collectors | 3 answers |
| Cisterns. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SUMPS (5)
The sumps were really short tunnels underneath the main ones and extending approximately between the center lines of the latter.
From the preliminary borings it was thought that the sumps were located so that the entire construction would be in rock.
The sewage of Manila is pumped three times into large sumps before it is finally dumped into the bay a mile from the city.
Directly the underground water-level is reached, the water has to be removed from the excavations by pumps raising the inflowing water from sumps, lined with timber, sunk down below the lowest foundations at suitable positions, so that the lower portions of the dock walls and sills of the lock or entrance may be built out of water.
Further, sometimes workmen slipping from the ladders into the shafts break their arms, legs, or necks, or fall into the sumps and are drowned; often, indeed, the negligence of the foreman is to blame, for it is his special work both to fix the ladders so firmly to the timbers that they cannot break away, and to cover so securely with planks the sumps at the bottom of the shafts, that the planks cannot be moved nor the men fall into the water; wherefore the foreman must carefully execute his own work.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1955–2019).