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wellheads

wellheads is the plural of wellhead.

Meaning of wellhead

Noun

wellhead (plural wellheads)

  1. The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
    • Leaue the troubled streames,
      And liue as Thriuers doe at the Well head.1607, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois, London: William Aspley, act I, scene 1, page 3
  2. (figuratively) The source of something; a fountainhead.
    • [H]e likened was to a welhed / Of euill words, and wicked ſclaunders by him ſhed.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 303
  3. The surface structure of an oil well etc.

Questions about wellheads

What is wellheads the plural of?
Wellheads is the plural of wellhead.

Words near wellheads in the dictionary

  1. wellfuls
  2. Wellhausen's hypothesis
  3. wellhead
  4. wellhead cost
  5. wellhead costs
  6. wellheads
  7. wellhole
  8. wellholes
  9. wellhouse
  10. wellhouses
  11. wellie

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