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OIL WELL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does oil well mean?

• OIL WELL (noun)
The noun OIL WELL has 1 sense:

1. a well that yields or has yielded oil

Familiarity information: OIL WELL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OIL WELL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A well that yields or has yielded oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

oil well; oiler

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)

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