Crossword-Solution: SUMPS 5 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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The sumps were really short tunnels underneath the main ones and extending approximately between the center lines of the latter.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard 2006
From the preliminary borings it was thought that the sumps were located so that the entire construction would be in rock.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard 2006
The sewage of Manila is pumped three times into large sumps before it is finally dumped into the bay a mile from the city.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 2008
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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 Various 2010
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.
De Re Metallica Georgius Agricola 2011
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Used 32 times in crossword archives (1955–2019).