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Artesian well

NOUN
well working by natural pressure
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The Artesian well at South Boston has been sunk to the depth of nearly 400 feet.

From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Porter, Rufus

And I knew a manufacturer, too, who went to bore an Artesian well for water, and hired a regular well-borer to do it. 

From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles

Get down to the love of God, and the love of men therefrom, and you have got an Artesian well which will bubble up unfailingly.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

The Artesian well, in many localities, is but the work of a few days or a week.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

The absolute depth of the Artesian well of Grenelle, near Paris, is only 1795 feet.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von




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