artesian

[ ahr-tee-zhuhn ]

/ ɑrˈti ʒən /

noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.

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1820–30; <French artésien pertaining to Artois (Old French Arteis Artois + -ien-ian), after the wells of this kind in the region

sub·ar·te·sian, adjective

The road in question leads from the city to the artesian well a few miles away.
The Short Line War|Samuel Merwin
In order to get its feet wet an infant turkey has been known to jump down an artesian well two hundred feet deep.
The Abandoned Farmers|Irvin S. Cobb
And I knew a manufacturer, too, who went to bore an Artesian well for water, and hired a regular well-borer to do it.
Madam How and Lady Why|Charles Kingsley
Then she boohoo'd too, and the tears that fell between us looked like we were artesian wells—they certainly did.
Mary Cary|Kate Langley Bosher

They are sinking an artesian well in the upper part of the town.
Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c.|Xavier Hommaire de Hell