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| ar·te·sian well [ aar t'n wèl ] (plural arte·sian wells) |
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well working by natural pressure: a well drilled through impermeable rocks into strata where water is under enough pressure to force it to the surface without pumping
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| [Mid-19th century. < French artésien "of Artois" ( Arteis in Old French), region in NE France where such wells were first drilled] |
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