sump

If water collects in certain spots, or if your crawl space is consistently damp, consider installing a sump pump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Powertrain Naturally aspirated liquid-cooled 90-degree V4 engine, 1,158-cc displacement, counter-rotating crankshaft, semi dry sump lubrication; six-speed manual transmission with straight-cut gears and multi-plate clutch, with slipper action on overrun; chain drive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

Last week, Ford said it had offered a 9% wage increase through 2027 and 6% lump sump payments, much less than the 46% wage hike being sought by the union.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2023

It was cold and dead, and a foul sump of oily many-coloured ooze lay at its bottom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Many of these older systems, especially the sumps, weren't designed to handle the corrosive mix of gasoline and ethanol sold in the United States.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

In very short order, much of this clean and lovely place, and a shoreline whose wetlands had cleaned and revived the natural system for millennia, were turned into sodden chemical sumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Though Kirk Cousins recovered his own fumble, this picture pretty much sumps up the Redskins season:

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2015

In other cases, environmental testing has disclosed the presence of oil spreading in groundwater from old spills and sumps, rendering property close to worthless.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2015

The sumps were really short tunnels underneath the main ones and extending approximately between the center lines of the latter.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by James H. Brace