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Definition of Spudding
1. spud [v] - See also: spud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spudding
Literary usage of Spudding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"spudding. 1n order to get down through tough coarse gravel, loose stones, or
boulders, ... 1n some machines a special spudding device is provided. ..."
2. Handbook on Petroleum for Inspectors Under the Petroleum Acts and for Those by Jocelyn Home Thomson, Boverton Redwood (1901)
"In this operation the cable by which the spudding, drilling tools are suspended
is coiled two or three times round the axle of the revolving bull-wheel, ..."
3. Handbook on Petroleum for Inspectors Under the Petroleum Acts and for Those by J. H. Thomson, Boverton Redwood (1906)
"In this operation the cable by which the spudding, drilling tools are suspended
is coiled two or three times round the axle of the revolving bull-wheel, ..."
4. Deep Well Drilling: The Principles and Practices of Deep Well Drilling, and by Walter Henry Jeffery (1921)
"... OR CABLE, TOOL SYSTEM OF DRILLING—RIGGING UP, spudding, DRIVING PIPE, DRILLING,
UNDER-REAMING, BIT DRESSING RIGGING UP When the rig is ready and the ..."
5. Practical Irrigation and Pumping: Water Requirements, Methods of Irrigation by Burton Percival Fleming (1915)
"spudding MACHINES.—These machines are those most generally employed, since they
may be used in a greater variety of materials and to almost any depth of ..."
6. A Manual of Mining. Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng (1898)
"... Mather and Platt system ; description of an oil-well plant. 73. spudding,
cost, progress, accidents, ..."
7. A Manual of Mining. Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng (1898)
"spudding, cost, progress, accidents, etc.; tools, rods, torpedoes, tubbing, and
their recovery; where used in preference to the diamond-drill; ..."
8. Well-drilling Machinery and Tools, No. 21: Section A of Price List by Oil well supply co., Pittsburg (1907)
"1545 Weight, 25 pounds $5 00 5 00 By using the wrist pin spudding arm in ...
1544 the wear on the spudding ropes is decreased. Wrist pin spudding arm, fig. ..."
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