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drill rig

alt. 1 (&lit drill rig English) 2 An oil rig. n. 1 (&lit drill rig English) 2 An oil rig.

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drill rig

n. rig used in drilling for oil or gas [syn: drilling rig, oilrig, oil rig]

Usage examples of "drill rig".

Now, it would take an enormous drill to do these, far too big for a person to lift, and some of these holes are in places no drill rig could reach, not to mention the fact that these lines go all the way from one end of camp to another, which would require a drill bit some two hundred meters long.

Rick turned his head and saw the tower of the drill rig, a latticework of steel from which pipe was suspended when the drill was operating.

The men began crating up the excavating machinery and the drill rig and the tools.

Attached to that was a pair of arms that might have been walking beams for an oil-drill rig, with hands that were blunt-fingered and obviously apish, but incredibly strong.

A drill rig taking a core through the reef of land coral which had overgrown the hilltop raised a plume of white dust that feathered off into the blue sky.

I was towing a waterproof pack containing food and medical supplies behind me on a line, but it was torn away and lost after a torrent of water swept me against an old drill rig.