单词 | thribble |
释义 | thribblen. regional. = treble n. (spec. in oil drilling: see quots. 1932, 1975), treble adj. and adv., treble v. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment > other parts of drilling equipment Samson's post1865 stand1913 thribble1932 kelly1934 1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 90 Thribble, treble. 1877 Wide Awake IV. 348/2 O, let the corn swell till it's three times as bulky as it was in the beginning; that's that's [sic] we call ‘thribbling’. 1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet i. 1 The man at the shop said they were worth thribble the money. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 271 Thrible.., a stand of three joints of pipe. Thrible-board.., a platform in the derrick at the height of a thrible. 1975 ‘J. Black’ Oil ii. ii. 158 Drill pipe came in thirty-foot lengths. These were screwed into sixty- or ninety-foot segments, known to oil field workers as ‘doubles’ or ‘thribbles’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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