Wellside

Quick meaning: Wellside is a noun meaning The area beside a well.

Meaning

The area beside a well.

More Meanings

1. The side of a well.

Example Sentences

I try to drink as little as possible, to the point even that my mind throws up tantalizing images as I ride: a full cask by the wellside with water splashing from the ladle; clean snow.

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 777-779, Once againe for a husband, & in faith Celanta I have got the start of you; Belike husbands growe by the Well side […]

Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord, and began lowering it into the well beside the first. Clym came forward and looked down. Strange humid leaves, which knew nothing of the seasons of the year, and quaint-natured mosses were revealed on the wellside as the lantern descended […]

1891, W. B. Yeats, Representative Irish Tales, New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Volume I, Dedication, p. iv, A honied ringing! under the new skies They bring you memories of old village faces, Cabins gone now, old well-sides, old dear places, And men who loved the cause that never dies.

Word Forms

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• well-side

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wellsite, valleyside, brookside, bankside, wellfield, ridgeside.

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