“dead、well”的英文意思_释义_用法

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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