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ˈdraw-well
1. A deep well from which water is drawn by a bucket suspended to a rope.
c1400Gamelyn 372 Tho thou threwe my porter in the draw-welle. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 78 The draw-well..Where that two buckets seuerall suithly hang, As one came vp, the other downe would gang. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 38 He drounit in ane drau vel. 1697E. Lhwyd in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 467 Their Coal-works were not Pits sunk like Draw-wells. 1829Nat. Philos., Hydraulics ii. 6 (U.K.S.) The Common bucket and rope..drawn up by a windlass, as in our common draw-wells.
†2. A deep drawer. Obs.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. xxx, I wish for their sakes I had the key of my study out of my draw-well, only for five minutes, to tell you their names. |