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Webster 1913 Edition
Wellhead
Well′headˊ
,Noun.
A source, spring, or fountain.
At the
wellhead
the purest streams arise. Spenser.
Our public-school and university life is a great
wellhead
of new and irresponsible words. Earle.
Definition 2024
wellhead
wellhead
English
Alternative forms
- well-head
Noun
wellhead (plural wellheads)
- The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
- (figuratively) The source of something; a fountainhead.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- he likened was to a welhed / Of evill words, and wicked sclaunders by him shed.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- The surface structure of an oil well etc.