| 单词 |
spudding |
| 释义 |
ˈspudding, vbl. n.
[f. spud v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of digging or removing with a spud; spec. the preliminary drilling of a well-hole through the upper part of the overburden (see spud v. 3 a); freq. as spudding in, spudding-in.
1885Engineering 26 June 708/2 The bore is usually started by what is termed spudding—i.e., working the tools direct from the Bull wheel, lifting and dropping by slacking or surging the rope on the wheel. 1891Daily News 12 Sept. 3/6 This is followed by regular day work..made up of thistle spudding,..hop-branching, hay⁓making, harvesting, &c. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 746/2 The start is made by ‘spudding’, which is done by attaching the drill proper to the rope, and then skilfully tightening and loosening the coils on the drum by hand, thus raising the drill and letting it fall within the tube. 1922A. Blum Petroleum iii. i. 162 The hole is started with a bit, eight to twenty inches across the cutting edge, the size depending upon the proposed depth of the hole... This is called ‘spudding in’. 1929Babbitt & Doland Water Supply Engin. vii. 160 The well hole is usually started by ‘spudding’, which consists in drilling without the walking beam because of the shorter length of tools and the lack of ‘stretch’ in the rope. 1967Sun 22 Sept. 8/5 Exploratory drilling starts this weekend with the ‘spudding-in’ of a well 15 miles off the Lincolnshire coast. 1974Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists LVIII. 1124/2 The present drilling program began in 1971 with the spudding of the Eider well.
2. Special Comb.: spudding bit, a drilling bit used in spudding.
1907Internat. Libr. Technol.: Rock Boring 16 The spudding bit in Fig. 16 is for drilling earth down to solid rock. 1924L. C. Uren Textbk. Petroleum Production Engin. v. 125 A special spudding bit is used which is shorter than the usual pattern. 1939D. Hager Fund. Petroleum Industry ix. 225 With the Lucy spudding bit a cement plug is set at the bottom of the hole, and the bit, by being raised or lowered, digs a hole several feet deep into the side of the hole. |
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