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spuddings

spuddings is the plural of spudding.

Meaning of spudding

Noun

spudding (plural spuddings)

  1. (oil industry) 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

Questions about spuddings

What is spuddings the plural of?
Spuddings is the plural of spudding.

Words near spuddings in the dictionary

  1. spudders
  2. spuddies
  3. spudding
  4. spudding shoe
  5. spudding shoes
  6. spuddings
  7. spuddle
  8. spuddled
  9. spuddles
  10. spuddling
  11. spuddy

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