well point

1. 1.

   a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area

   Synonymswellpoint

   Broadertube

Questions about well point

What does well point mean?

well point means "a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area".

What is another word for well point?

Close synonyms include wellpoint. 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 well point a common word?

well point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.