Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The water of a well or of wells; water drawn from an artificial well.
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Examples
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I was offered well-water tea, boiled over cow dung -- a great honor.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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I was offered well-water tea, boiled over cow dung -- a great honor.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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His mother Barbara checks on the property regularly and says John's dream home became a nightmare after his well-water showed high traces of arsenic two years ago.
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The only efficient use for windmills is to generate mechanical power in locations far from power lines (such as a well-water pump in the middle of a huge ranch).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » One Step Forward, One Step Back 2010
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I was offered well-water tea, boiled over cow dung -- a great honor.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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I was offered well-water tea, boiled over cow dung -- a great honor.
Jim Luce: Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village Jim Luce 2012
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I was living the Beatnik dream, and, like some romantic Gary Snyder-figure, every day I'd chop wood, fill buckets to overflowing with mostly drinkable well-water, and write haiku on the walls of my humble abode.
An Account of my Dwelling (for Kamo no Chômei) Marc Lowe 2011
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And Matunde was caught dirtying the well-water again.
Waketaurs 2010
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Arsenic contamination is a problem in some well-water and may be associated with mine drainage.
Arsenic 2009
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But increased livestock production had greater effects in areas with low well-water usage, implicating air pollution.
The CAFO stench is killing babies while the USDA laughs at farmers 2009
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