pump, n. = slut

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Mar 26 01:21:51 UTC 2014

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At 3/25/2014 06:10 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I heard this as "the *town* pump," with the relevant meaning, punning on
>Hawthorne, I assume,

Ah, is that what "rills" refers to.  Although I have not come across
this analysis anywhere in my study of Hawthorne.

Joel

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