Pumper
[puhm-per] /ˈpʌm pər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that .
2.
a fire truck specially equipped to water at the site of a fire.
n.
1650s, agent noun from pump (v.). As “fire engine that pumps water,” by 1915.
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