wæter-sēaþ, m.n: a water-pit, well, reservoir. [WÆ-ter-SAY-ath]
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Medieval water well at the Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo by Urek Meniashvili on Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0. [commons.wikimedia.org]