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DRILLING PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drilling pipe mean? 

DRILLING PIPE (noun)
  The noun DRILLING PIPE has 1 sense:

1. a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mudplay

  Familiarity information: DRILLING PIPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRILLING PIPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drilling pipe" is a kind of...):

pipage; pipe; piping (a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.)


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