1. Having a well or hollow on the surface, pitted.
1848. Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 337. A series of ill-defined welled depressions.
1855. trans. Labarte’s Arts Mid. Ages, p. xxix. A broad flat border, with a welled centre, characterise this class of plates.
2. Having a tank or cistern in which fish are carried or preserved alive.
1864. Rep. Comm. Sea Fisheries (1866), II. 456. In the year 1712, at Harwich,… welled smacks were first constructed, suitable for fishing in the North Sea for cod-fish, &c.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Aug., 4. Your fish … are brought to the city alive in welled fishing boats.
1874. H. Mayhew, Lond. Characters, 335. These salmon mostly come packed in ice…; or else in welled steamers.
