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Definition of Air well
1. Noun. A shaft for ventilation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Well
Literary usage of Air well
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Petroleum Production Methods by John R. Suman (1921)
"Where the method is used, one producing well in a group is selected as an air well.
Best results are usually obtained when there is one air well to three ..."
2. Petroleum, where and how to Find it by Anthony Blum (1922)
"The air enters the oil sand at the air well, spreads out, and is distributed ...
Each pumping well gets but a fraction of the air forced into the air well, ..."
3. Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties by Charles Frederick Weller, Eugenia Winston Weller (1909)
"It was into this air-well that the dying consumptive and her tuberculous ...
The second ventilating slit or air-well is only two and a half feet wide by ..."
4. The Minor Theatre: Being a Collection of the Most Approved Farces, Operas (1794)
"Mrs, Air. Well, and must not every body who ventures in the lottery of life, ...
Air. Well, well; here we are; and what's to be done? Airs. Air. ..."