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whip line

whip line is the alternative spelling of whipline.

Meaning of whipline

Noun

whipline (plural whiplines)

  1. A cable, typically made of braided steel, used to lower and retrieve tools and instruments into oil or gas wells.
    • Because the seas were a bit rough that morning the crane was using the whip line.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 45

Forms of whip line

pluralwhip lines

Questions about whip line

What is whip line the alternative spelling of?
Whip line is the alternative spelling of whipline.

Words near whip line in the dictionary

  1. whip in
  2. whip into shape
  3. whip it on
  4. whip kick
  5. whip kicks
  6. whip line
  7. whip lines
  8. whip off
  9. whip out
  10. whip pan
  11. whip pans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whip line (page history and authors); whipline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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