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▪ I. ˈspudder1 rare. Now dial.
Also 7 sputher.
[Alteration of pudder, puther pother n.]
Fuss, disturbance, bother.
1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 38 These are to advance and keep some spudder in the North, to draw down a considerable party thitherward. 1661Brome Songs & Poems 171 When we know all the Pretty sputher, Betwixt the one house and the other. 1880–2in Cornwall glossaries.
▪ II. spudder2|ˈspʌdə(r)|
[f. spud v. + -er1.]
A small drilling rig used for spudding.
1922L. C. Sands in D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry I. 250 These lighter outfits generally manipulate the drilling tools by the spudding principle and are often called ‘spudders’. 1935Discovery Apr. 119/1 The see-saw motion of the [rocking] ‘beam’..transmits to the tool a motion very similar to that of the spudder. 1960Pacific Reporter CCCLIV. 444/2 Plaintiff..purchased four small standard drilling rigs (commonly referred to as ‘spudders’) at an aggregate cost of $15,750. 1977R. D. Langenkamp Handbk. Oil Industry Terms & Phrases (ed. 2) 160 Spudders are used in shallow-well workovers, for spudding in, or bringing in a rotary-drilled well. |