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Wildcat well   /wˈaɪldkˌæt wɛl/   Listen
Wildcat well

noun
1.
An exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field.  Synonym: wildcat.





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"Wildcat well" Quotes from Famous Books



... Impossible! Yet, every well in this field has started producing again! And when we went to that old, abandoned wildcat well, we found the shaft opening! I had it covered up, ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various


Words linked to "Wildcat well" :   wildcat, oiler, oil well


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