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hot well, hot-well
1. A spring of naturally hot water, a hot spring.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xiv. 64 Þe cite of Phenice, whare er hate welles and hate bathez. 1752Canton in Phil. Trans. LVII. 203 The hot-well near Bristol, the water of which raised the thermometer to 76°. 1793J. Nott (title) A treatise on the Hot-Well Waters, near Bristol.
2. A reservoir in a condensing steam-engine, into which the heated water passes from the condenser, and from which it is drawn to supply the boiler.
1766Specif. Barber's Patent No. 865. 3 The water hastens through the sinking clack into the trunk or hot well. 1827Farey Steam Eng. 354 The hot well..is part of the condensing cistern..for the reception of the hot water which is discharged by the air-pump. |