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artesian well
Word definitions for artesian well in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Such a borehole is called an artesian well .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see artesian
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure. 2 A bore-hole in an artesian basin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a well drilled through impermeable strata into strata that receive water from a higher altitude so there is pressure to force the water to flow upward
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Well \Well\, n. [OE. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to D. wel a spring or fountain. ????. See Well , v. i.] An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well. --Milton. A ...
Usage examples of artesian well.
Aint never heard of no artesian well around here, and my granny was born just the other side of your ranch.
He had assumed leadership in the tiny community bound together by the water pipes leading from the artesian well.
We also have our own artesian well and purification plant, so water won't be a problem.
My feeling at that moment, as I capped the second bottle and turned to return to my kayak, was that a three-headed mutant alien or -- to speak in the realm of the more real bizarre -- that the Shrike itself could have drunk from that artesian well on that pleasant desert afternoon and not have been accosted or questioned by the citizens.
Just past one of the many self-serve locks, I paddled to a pier, tied my bobbing kayak in place as a heavy barge exited the lock behind me, and walked toward a circular wood-and-adobe structure that I hoped was an artesian well.
At those loud words, the artesian well in the middle of the ville broke apart, the wooden beams bursting into ash and the stones plummeting out of sight into the ground.
There's an artesian well down there underneath the time device apparently.
Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.
It came from an artesian well in La Plata, a little town forty miles east of Waco, and before I turned it into this concentrated form, there were five gallons of it.