英语词汇“dead-well”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	dead-well
释义	dead well, ˈdead-ˈwell [dead a. 15, 22.] 1. A well dug down into a porous stratum, to carry off surface or refuse water: called also absorbing well, dumb well. Cf. dead-hole (dead a. D. 2). 1852–61Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. i. 5 In some parts of England absorbing wells are known under the name of dead wells.1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 10 Dead wells, wells which are made to carry off refuse waters. 2. A ‘well’ or excavation into which the weights of a large clock descend. 1867Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old Fr. I. 261 A ‘dead well’ of some twenty feet depth, which used to receive the descending weights of a great clock.
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