tube well

1. 1.

   a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water

   Synonymsdriven well

   Broaderwell

Questions about tube well

What does tube well mean?

tube well means "a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water".

What is another word for tube well?

Close synonyms include driven well. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tube well a common word?

tube well is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.