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cylinder

1. n. []

The barrel of the sucker rod pump. The plunger travels up and down in the cylinder. The plunger and the barrel operate as a piston mechanism to lift reservoir fluids into the subsurface pump. A cylinder is also known as a pump barrel.

Alternate Form: pump barrel

See: sucker rod pump