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artesian well |
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artesian well [art-teez-yan] Noun a well receiving water from a higher altitude, so the water is forced to flow upwards [from Old French Arteis Artois (in N France) where such wells were common]
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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 moment they hear of John's Artesian well, they look as if they never drank water. Amongst us you will not meet with any of those episodes with which your adventurous existence has so familiarized you; our Chimborazo is Mortmartre, our Himalaya is Mount Valerien, our Great Desert is the plain of Grenelle, where they are now boring an artesian well to water the caravans. |
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