Pump
A pump — drawing water up by effort — often touches riches and good health produced by energy and faithfulness, with blasted energies in a broken one. The dream may ask where steady, devoted work is bringing up what sustains you, and whether the mechanism of your effort is drawing clear water or running dry and broken.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pump, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a pump in a dream, denotes that energy and faithfulness to business will produce desired riches, good health also is usually betokened by this dream.
To see a broken pump, signifies that the means of advancing in life will be absorbed by family cares. To the married and the unmarried, it intimates blasted energies.
If you work a pump, your life will be filled with pleasure and profitable undertakings.
Fontaine, 1862
Dreaming of a pump is an excellent omen: if you dream of pumping clear water from one, it shows that you will have good luck in business, or in a speculation: pumping dirty water is a sign of sickness.