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Spudding
(drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
📖 Definitions of "Spudding"
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(drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
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(roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
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(camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
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(drilling) The initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Spudding"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| spuddernoun | One who digs up weeds with a spud. |
| spadingnoun | The act by which soil is spaded, or turned over by digging. |
| spadeworknoun | (figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else. |
| spud bashingnoun | (UK, slang) The chore of peeling potatoes, especially when given as a punishment. |
| drillnoun | A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. |
| spud-bashingnoun | Alternative form of spud bashing. [(UK, slang) The chore of peeling potatoes, especially when given as a punishment.] |
| grousernoun | A person who grouses; a grumbler. |
| drill rignoun | An oil rig. |
| stopernoun | (mining) A kind of drill for excavating stopes. |
| plummingnoun | (photography) A plum-colored distortion of prints. |
| paystreaknoun | (mining) The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material. |
| puddeningnoun | (nautical) Fibres of old rope packed between spars, or used as a fender. |
| scratchernoun | A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch. |
| studdingnoun | Anything with which a surface is studded. |
| boreholenoun | A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water. |
| casing stringnoun | (drilling) A long section of connected oilfield pipe that is lowered into a wellbore and cemented. |
| spruenoun | (metallurgy) A channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process. |
| speeringnoun | (Scotland) An enquiry; an asking about something. |
| strikenoun | (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught. |
| sputnoun | An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made. |
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