spudding
spudding noun: the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling. Also the present participle and gerund of spud.
Noun
spudding (plural spuddings)
- The initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
- From these spuddings the approximate percentage loss of capacity can be estimated, but no reliable volume figures are obtained because the exact location of the spuddings is not known, and the area of the lake is seldom accurately known.1941, James George Needham, Paul Bigelow Sears, Aldo Leopold, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, A Symposium on Hydrobiology, page 36
- Of the 21 holes the small consortium drilled, all of them proved to be dry except two promising spuddings in Libya during 1958.1963, Forbes, page 26
Also used as
spudding is also the present participle and gerund of spud.
Forms of spudding
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Words formed from spudding
Phrases with spudding
Questions about spudding
- What does spudding mean?
- Spudding means the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
- What part of speech is spudding?
- Spudding is a noun.
- What is the plural of spudding?
- The plural of spudding is spuddings.
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