well-sinker

Cornish well-sinker, was sentenced by the late Mr. Justice Coleridge to twenty months 'imprisonment for chalking some "blasphemous" words on

Prisoner for Blasphemy 1882

Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

Sometimes the burrow contains nothing but the well-sinker surprised at its work: sometimes -- and not rarely -- the hermit will be found embracing

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Envy grows keener; those who but now were cautious become turbulent and aggressive, and would willingly drive from the spring the well-sinker who has caused it to flow.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The well-sinker returns to the other workers, who arch their backs, and the load progresses a finger's-breadth towards the point recognized as favourable.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material.

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material.

Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The poor manufacturer spent hundreds of pounds more in trying to get the sand out, but in vain; and he had at last to make a fresh and much larger well by the side of the old one, bewailing the day when he listened to the well-sinker and not to the geologist, and so threw away more than a thousand pounds.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

M.. James Smith, [42] of Liverpool -- hereinafter notorified -- attributes the first announcement of 3-1/8 to M. Joseph Lacomme, a French well-sinker, of whom he gives the following account:

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Mr. M----, a miner and well-sinker, about three years ago, lost the power of contracting both his thumbs; the balls or muscles of the thumbs are much emaciated, and remain paralytic.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766