He says they've been holed by the ice, but he thinks the pumps can handle it for a time at any rate.

We're taking on water faster than the pumps can handle it.

If the pump can handle such the oil may even contain lumps such as scraps of food.

At a working speed of 16 rpm, these pumps could handle 4 million gallons in 24 hours over a relatively low head.

It's gaining faster than the pumps can handle.

It won't be tight, but the pumps can handle the leakage.

He worked the pump handle up and down.

Satisfied that the pumps could handle a brief loss of humidity, he felt along the seam between lid and sides for an opening.

Sewage pumping stations are typically designed so that one pump or one set of pumps will handle normal peak flow conditions.

Electronics and pumps are handling over 10,000 gallons of water per hour.