sump

• a covered cistern
• an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
• a well or other hole in which water has collected
• A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion
• The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there
• A pond of water for salt works
• A puddle or dirty pool

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