"wellside" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "well + -side",
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        {
          "text": "1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 777-779,\nOnce againe for a husband, & in faith Celanta I have got the start of you; Belike husbands growe by the Well side […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, Walter Scott, chapter 20, in The Bride of Lammermoor",
          "text": "[…] I am sure it is not my fault if I do not practise enough; for, of free will, I would do little else, only my father and tutor are angry sometimes, and only Miss Lucy there gives herself airs about my being busy, for all she can sit idle by a well-side the whole day, when she has a handsome young gentleman to prate with.",
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        {
          "text": "1891, W. B. Yeats, Representative Irish Tales, New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Volume I, Dedication, p. iv,\nA honied ringing! under the new skies\nThey bring you memories of old village faces,\nCabins gone now, old well-sides, old dear places,\nAnd men who loved the cause that never dies."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Warburg, Chapter, p. 81",
          "text": "I try to drink as little as possible, to the point even that my mind throws up tantalizing images as I ride: a full cask by the wellside with water splashing from the ladle; clean snow.",
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        "The area beside a well."
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          "ref": "1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book Three, Chapter 3",
          "text": "Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord, and began lowering it into the well beside the first. Clym came forward and looked down. Strange humid leaves, which knew nothing of the seasons of the year, and quaint-natured mosses were revealed on the wellside as the lantern descended […]",
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        },
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          "text": "1902, F. St. George Mivart, “Report on the General Sanitary Circumstances and Administration of the Stroud Rural and Nailsworth Urban Districts” in Thirteenth Annual Report of the Local Government Board: Supplement containing the Report of the Medical Officer for 1900-01, London, App. A, No. 11, p. 130,\nMany wells were seen which are evidently liable to pollution from the direct passage into them of filth from the surface of the ground […] in some cases dripping or trickling was noticed at the wellsides, in others the sides were heavily grown with vegetation."
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          "text": "1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 777-779,\nOnce againe for a husband, & in faith Celanta I have got the start of you; Belike husbands growe by the Well side […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, Walter Scott, chapter 20, in The Bride of Lammermoor",
          "text": "[…] I am sure it is not my fault if I do not practise enough; for, of free will, I would do little else, only my father and tutor are angry sometimes, and only Miss Lucy there gives herself airs about my being busy, for all she can sit idle by a well-side the whole day, when she has a handsome young gentleman to prate with.",
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          "text": "1891, W. B. Yeats, Representative Irish Tales, New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Volume I, Dedication, p. iv,\nA honied ringing! under the new skies\nThey bring you memories of old village faces,\nCabins gone now, old well-sides, old dear places,\nAnd men who loved the cause that never dies."
        },
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          "ref": "1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Warburg, Chapter, p. 81",
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          "text": "Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord, and began lowering it into the well beside the first. Clym came forward and looked down. Strange humid leaves, which knew nothing of the seasons of the year, and quaint-natured mosses were revealed on the wellside as the lantern descended […]",
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        },
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    {
      "word": "well-side"
    }
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