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Definition of dry well in English: dry wellnoun 1A shaft or chamber constructed in the ground in order to aid drainage, sometimes containing pumping equipment. Example sentencesExamples - Faulkner tries to match him but Ruth poured it down like a bucket of water down a dry well.
- The intervals were selected because the plants had asserted that the dumping of chlorinated solvents into dry wells and sewers had ceased in 1983, and clean-up activities were proceeding.
- The pressure from the water rushing into the dry wells caused the covers to shoot up into the air!
- Aidan felt like he was sitting at the bottom of a dry well, his thoughts echoing off the walls of his mind to be thrown back at him twice as loud.
- To drill this many dry wells required intense concentration on the part of the British drillers.
- If that is not possible, dig a 2-foot by 2-foot dry well for the pipe to discharge into.
- Drain water from pools, hot tubs and roof drains to a ditch or separate dry well.
- Big Jim fell through the planks covering a dry well while preaching, dying with holy words in his mouth and a glimpse of the stars at noon.
- My mother was furious at me for disobeying nature's plan and tossed me in the dry well full of bibles to think about what I've done.
2 another term for dry hole
Definition of dry well in US English: dry wellnoun 1A shaft or chamber constructed in the ground in order to aid drainage, sometimes containing pumping equipment. Example sentencesExamples - The intervals were selected because the plants had asserted that the dumping of chlorinated solvents into dry wells and sewers had ceased in 1983, and clean-up activities were proceeding.
- The pressure from the water rushing into the dry wells caused the covers to shoot up into the air!
- If that is not possible, dig a 2-foot by 2-foot dry well for the pipe to discharge into.
- Big Jim fell through the planks covering a dry well while preaching, dying with holy words in his mouth and a glimpse of the stars at noon.
- My mother was furious at me for disobeying nature's plan and tossed me in the dry well full of bibles to think about what I've done.
- Aidan felt like he was sitting at the bottom of a dry well, his thoughts echoing off the walls of his mind to be thrown back at him twice as loud.
- Drain water from pools, hot tubs and roof drains to a ditch or separate dry well.
- Faulkner tries to match him but Ruth poured it down like a bucket of water down a dry well.
- To drill this many dry wells required intense concentration on the part of the British drillers.
2 another term for dry hole
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