artesian well
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artesian well (plural artesian wells)
- An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII:
- “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.”
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII:
- A bore-hole in an artesian basin.
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aquifer
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bore-hole
