hot well

noun

a tank or reservoir in which hot water is collected before being recirculated, especially condensed steam about to be returned to a boiler.

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

It is of the vertical kind, and stands on a shallow square tank, which forms the hot well.

If you are carrying a vacuum equal to 27 inches of mercury, what should the temperature of the water in the hot well be?

From the bottom of these cliffs, on the east bank of the river, issues the Bristol Hot Well water.

All steam supplied to the turbine obviously goes to swell the hot-well contents, and to thus increase the total steam consumption.

I got some water from the hot well; tasting o' copper and grease.

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