dry well (English, noun)
expansion: dry well (plural dry wells)
Senses:
topics: business
civil-engineering
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An underground structure (for example, a pit filled with gravel) that disposes of unwanted water (most commonly surface runoff and stormwater and in some cases greywater) by holding it and dissipating it into the groundwater.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dry, well. Any kind of well that is dry.
Forms:
form: dry wells
tags: plural
form: drywell
tags: alternative