draw-wells

Huge pot-holes, as large as draw-wells, had been worn in the sides, and were so deep that in some instances, when protected from the sun by overhanging boulders, the water in them was quite cool.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The country people only get it in deep draw-wells.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

She enjoyed everything, breathing in with delight the fragrance wafted to her from the rape and clover fields, or watching the soaring of the larks, and counting the draw-wells and troughs, to which the cattle went to drink.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Next he was warned not to approach the dwellings of men, or to wash in running streams, or to handle the ropes of draw-wells, or to drink from the cups of wayside springs.

A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

He had seen all sorts of people at the draw-wells of the houses-British, Spanish, French, South American,

No Defense, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897

He had seen all sorts of people at the draw-wells of the houses-British, Spanish, French, South American,

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

He had seen all sorts of people at the draw-wells of the houses-British, Spanish, French, South American,

No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

A narrow conduit of cut stone leads, with elaborate zigzags, towards two Sakiyah ( "draw-wells") hollowed in the gypsum.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Huge pot-holes, as large as draw-wells, had been worn in the sides, and were so deep that in some instances, when protected from the sun by overhanging boulders, the water in them was quite cool.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

The Jews say that by the equity of this law they were obliged (and so are we too) to fence, or remove, every thing by which life may be endangered, as to cover draw-wells, keep bridges in repair, and the like, lest, if any perish through our omission, their blood be required at our hand.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721