well diggers
Groundwater access creators
Well diggers are people who dig wells—shafts sunk into the ground to access water.
The term evokes manual labor from an era before modern drilling equipment: His grandfather was a well digger in rural Kansas.
The compound appears in the folk expression "colder than a well digger's ass," describing extreme cold.
- drillersThose who bore holes
- borersHole-making insects or tools
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
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