nodding donkey
Oil Industry
noun
A reciprocating pump for drawing oil to the surface.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Times.
- cross a (or the) line
- cross-assembler
- crossbar
- cross-beam
- cross-bedding
- cross bench
- cross-bencher
- crossbill
- crossbones
- cross-border
- crossbow
- crossbowman
- cross-breed
- cross-check
- cross-claim
- cross-color
- cross-colour
- meridian circle
- meridian mark
- meridian passage
- meridian quadrant
- meridian ring
- meridian transit
- meridional
- meridionality