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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.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “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.

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