A well drilled for oil or gas but yielding none.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is very easy to drill dry holes and the only guarantee we have is that we will experience failures.
- This is a Texas oilman who seemed to drill nothing but dry holes.
- Some newly discovered fields will be gushers and some will be dry holes.
- You can spend a whole lot of money on exploration and still hit dry holes.
- But Shell withdrew from exploration, because for 2 years it had drilled nothing but dry holes.