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PUMP, n.¹, v.¹ Sc. usages:

I. n. 1. As in Eng. Comb. pump-baak, n., the midship thwart in a fishing-boat, placed beside the pump (Mry. 1930). See Bauk, n., 7.Mry. 1914 Trans. Bnff. Field Club 24:
There were the hank baak, the pump baak or midship baak, the byock baak, and the head-steel.

2. A public house or tavern. Sc. colloq. or slang.Edb. 1871 M. MacLennan B. Blake ii. xix.:
"I likes a drop of good beer," and it's hard if a fellow can't turn into a pump when he runs about till midnight!Edb. 1897 C. M. Campbell Deilie Jock v.:
"A dram'll soon put ye richt" . . . So I just went wi' him to the nearest pump.

II. v. Vbl.n. pumping, a disease affecting trees, a form of heart-rot which leaves the stem hollow like a pump-shaft. Ppl.adj. pumped, pumpit, of a tree: affected by pumping or heart-rot, having a hollow stem or trunk (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 135; ne.Sc., Ags., Per., Kcb. 1967).Sc. 1869 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 213:
The rot in larch is a disease which has been noticed by various writers on larch since the beginning of the present century. In some parts it is known by the term pumping.Sc. 1869 Trans. Highl. Soc. 378:
At the present time the writer is cutting a plantation of larch, . . . and he finds nearly all the trees "pumped."Sc. 1873 Trans. Highl. Soc. 101:
None of these trees, however, have been affected with ulcers, Coccus laricis, ground-rot, or pumping.