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Artesian well   /ˌɑrtˈiʒən wɛl/   Listen
Artesian well

noun
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.





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"Artesian well" Quotes from Famous Books



... it off. The discourse was delivered with extremely awkward gestures, but in a voice of great sweetness. The text was: "My soul thirsteth for the Living God." He described an arid wilderness, hot and parched, and down beneath it a mighty vein of water into which an artesian well was bored, and forthwith the waters gushed up through it and swept over all the dry desert, making it one emerald meadow. "So," said he, "it is the incarnate Jesus flowing up through our own dusty, barren desert humanity, and overflowing us with ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
... lost enough already, when it comes to that," she continued, folding her hands resignedly in her convex lap. "There was that artesian well down ...
— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham


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