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fourbles

fourbles is the plural of fourble.

Meaning of fourble

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

Questions about fourbles

What is fourbles the plural of?
Fourbles is the plural of fourble.

Words near fourbles in the dictionary

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

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