ARTESIAN WELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artesian well mean? 

• ARTESIAN WELL (noun)
  The noun ARTESIAN WELL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ARTESIAN WELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTESIAN WELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("artesian well" is a kind of...):

well (a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine)

 Context examples 

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.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)