English Dictionary

yabby pump

noun

(Australia, biology) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.

I used a yabby pump to catch some freshwater crayfish.

意味（1）

(Australia, biology) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.

In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the yabby pump) which will be described. … The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.