wall cake

noun

A layer of fine-grained sediment that forms on the walls of a borehole during drilling operations.

Meanings

nounwall cake (countable and uncountable, plural wall cakes)

plural wall cakes

  1. countableuncountableA layer of fine-grained sediment that forms on the walls of a borehole during drilling operations.
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