dead welldead-welln.
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 n. at dead adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage > specific type
pipe drain1766
air drainage1816
well drain1818
sheep drain1844
pipe drainage1851
dead well1859
mole ditch1860
dumb well1878
1859–60 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) i. 5 In some parts of England absorbing wells are known under the name of dead wells.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1867 G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France I. 261 A ‘dead well’ of some twenty feet depth, which used to receive the descending weights of a great clock.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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