fourble

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noun

A set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.

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Meanings

nounfourble (plural fourbles)

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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