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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



... tubed, and by a common hand pump yielded ten barrels per day. By means of a more powerful pump, worked by a small engine, this quantity was increased to forty barrels per day. The supply was uninterrupted, the engine working day and night, and the question was considered settled. This oil well immediately became the centre of attraction. It was visited by hundreds and thousands, all eager to see for themselves, and test by actual experiment, the wondrous stories that had been related concerning its enormous yield, by counting the seconds that ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various



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



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