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OIL WELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A well that yields or has yielded oil
Synonyms:
oil well; oiler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("oil well" is a kind of...):
well (a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil well"):
gusher (an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary)
spouter (an oil well that is spouting)
stripper; stripper well (an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day)
wildcat; wildcat well (an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field)
