"wellhead" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1607, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois, London: William Aspley, act I, scene 1, page 3:",
          "text": "Leaue the troubled streames,\nAnd liue as Thriuers doe at the Well head.",
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          "ref": "1789, William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye, London: R. Blamire, Section 6, p. 74:",
          "text": "It is a singular circumstance, that within a quarter of a mile of the well-head of the Wye, arises the Severn.",
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          "text": "We set forth accordingly by this itinerary; and for the best part of three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers; [...]",
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        "The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well."
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          "text": "[H]e likened was to a welhed / Of euill words, and wicked ſclaunders by him ſhed.",
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          "text": "[...] a bull was not merely a stud animal worth so much, due to go to the butcher in a little while. It was a vast wonder-beast, a well-head of the great, furnace-like passion that makes the worlds roll and the sun surge up [...]",
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