well drain
noun
1 Agriculture a well sunk to drain wet land, the water being either pumped away or allowed to sink down into porous subsoil.
2A drain for a compartment or container designed to hold or catch liquid.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Abraham Rees (1743–1825), Presbyterian minister and encyclopaedist.
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