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Spindletop structure
Answer for the clue "Spindletop structure ", 6 letters:
oilrig
Alternative clues for the word oilrig
Word definitions for oilrig in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
oil rig \oil" rig`\, oilrig \oil"rig`\n. A structure and associated machinery used in drilling for oil or gas; it is usually in the form of a tower. Called also drilling rig . Syn: drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rig used in drilling for oil or gas [syn: drill rig , drilling rig , oil rig ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas. n. A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.
Usage examples of oilrig.
Instead they used it to haul oilrigs through twenty-foot swells in the North Atlantic.
There was a vein of murder snaking across the continent beneath highways, smokestacks, oilrigs and gasworks, a casual savagery fed by the mute cities, and I wondered what impossible distance must be traveled to get from there to here, what language crossed, how many levels of being.