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Oil well   /ɔɪl wɛl/   Listen
Oil well

noun
1.
A well that yields or has yielded oil.  Synonym: oiler.





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"Oil well" Quotes from Famous Books



... No oil well, gas well or test well shall be drilled nearer than three hundred feet to any opening to a mine used as a means of ingress or egress for persons employed therein, nor nearer than one hundred feet to any building or inflammable structure connected therewith, and actually ...
— Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 • Anonymous
... as a collective State exhibit, and in addition to this there was ore from Edmonson County, ore from Nelson County, ore from Allen County, ore from Carter County, and ore from Hart County. One of the unique displays was a sample bottle of oil from the old American oil well in Cumberland County. This well, begun September 10, 1827, was the first oil well in America. Collective State exhibits of oynx marble, paint earths, polished earths, sands, silicious earths, road materials, fluorspars, ...
— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission


Words linked to "Oil well" :   spouter, oiler, well, stripper, stripper well, gusher, wildcat well, wildcat


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