Artesian well
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
"“When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”"
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 A bore-hole in an artesian basin.
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More examples"“When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”"