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dry well

noun

  1. a drainage pit lined with loose stonework for the leaching of liquid wastes.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dry well1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Knowing that the monkey would only keep killing, they threw it down a dry well, only for it to reenter their lives 25 years later.

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Like, “bucket clanking on the bottom of a dry well†low?

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Let it dry well, and you can store valuables in the last place someone might look.

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A Bend, Oregon, man who went missing on Christmas Day was found alive and in good condition in a dry well inside a gated storage unit facility, local police said.

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With an emphasis on diversity and flowers that dry well, she planted 20 varieties, including zinnias, statice, honeywort, sweet peas and cress, by using landscape fabric and a blowtorch to cut the fabric and prevent fraying.

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