artesian well (plural artesian wells)

1. An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.

   Synonyms: artesian spring

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:

     “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”

2. A bore-hole in an artesian basin.

• Russian: артезиа́нские во́ды
• Spanish: pozo artesiano

• French: puits artésien
• German: artesischer Brunnen
• Portuguese: poço artesiano
• Russian: артезиа́нский коло́дец