Definition of "well-sinker" [well-sinker]

• One who sinks or digs wells. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Cornish well-sinker, was sentenced by the late Mr. Justice Coleridge to twenty months 'imprisonment for chalking some "blasphemous" words on"
• "Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material."
• "The well-sinker returns to the other workers, who arch their backs, and the load progresses a finger's-breadth towards the point recognized as favourable."