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The Collaborative International Dictionary
oilrig

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.

Wiktionary
oilrig

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.

WordNet
oilrig

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

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.