artesian well

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Noun

artesian well (plural artesian wells)

1. An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.

   Synonym: artesian spring

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “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.”

2. A bore-hole in an artesian basin.

Translations

aquifer

Catalan: pou artesià m Chinese: Mandarin: 自流含水層 / 自流含水层 (zìliú hánshuǐcéng), 承壓含水層 / 承压含水层 Finnish: arteesinen kaivo (fi) French: puits artésien (fr) m Georgian: არტეზიული ჭა (arṭeziuli č̣a) Greek: αρτεσιανό φρέαρ (el) n (artesianó fréar) Hindi: पातालतोड़ कुआँ (pātāltoṛ kuā̃) Irish: tobar airtéiseach m, fuarán airtéiseach m (literally “artesian spring”) Polish: źródło artezyjskie n Romanian: fântână arteziană (ro) f Russian: артезиа́нские во́ды f pl (artɛziánskije vódy) Sikkimese: ཆུ་གཏེར (chu gter) Spanish: pozo artesiano m Tagalog: poso-artesyano Turkish: artezyen kuyusu (tr)

borehole

Chinese: Mandarin: 自流井 (zh) (zìliújǐng), 承壓井 / 承压井 Finnish: arteesinen porakaivo French: puits artésien (fr) m German: artesischer Brunnen m Greek: αρτεσιανό φρέαρ n (artesianó fréar) Japanese: 掘り抜き井戸 (ほりぬきいど, horinuki ido) Polish: studnia artezyjska (pl) f Portuguese: poço artesiano m Russian: артезиа́нский коло́дец (ru) m (artɛziánskij kolódec), артезиа́нская сква́жина f (artɛziánskaja skvážina)