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fourble

fourble noun: a set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.

Noun

fourble (plural fourbles)

  1. A set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.
    • Derricks are being made slightly higher, the Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil Co. making all its derricks 122 feet instead of 114 feet as hitherto; this gives greater head room for extra long "fourbles", and is an advantage.1924, Roy Cross, A Handbook of Petroleum, Asphalt and Natural Gas: Methods of Analysis, Specifications, Properties, Refining Processes, Statistics, Tables and Bibliography

Forms of fourble

pluralfourbles

Questions about fourble

What does fourble mean?
Fourble means a set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.
What part of speech is fourble?
Fourble is a noun.
What is the plural of fourble?
The plural of fourble is fourbles.

Words near fourble in the dictionary

  1. fourball
  2. fourballs
  3. fourberies
  4. fourbery
  5. fourbes
  6. fourble
  7. fourbles
  8. Fourcault process
  9. fourche
  10. fourchee
  11. fourchette

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