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Wellhead

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.

    "Leaue the troubled streames, And liue as Thriuers doe at the Well head."

  2. 2
    a structure built over a well wordnet
  3. 3
    The source of something; a fountainhead. figuratively

    "[H]e likened was to a welhed / Of euill words, and wicked ſclaunders by him ſhed."

  4. 4
    the source of water for a well wordnet
  5. 5
    The surface structure of an oil well etc.

Etymology

From well + head.

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