Scudding vs Spudding - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between scudding and spudding is that scudding is while spudding is . As nouns the difference between scudding and spudding is that scudding is the action of the verb to scud while spudding is (drilling) the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling. As an adjective scudding is that scuds or scud.
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scudding English
Verb
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Noun
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The action of the verb to scud .
Adjective
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That scuds or scud.
* 1833 ,
- all times I have enjoy'd
- Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
- That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
- Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)
- Vext the dim sea
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spudding English
Noun
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(drilling) The initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
* 1941 , James George Needham, Paul Bigelow Sears, Aldo Leopold, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, A Symposium on Hydrobiology , page 36 ,
- From these spuddings' the approximate percentage loss of capacity can be estimated, but no reliable volume figures are obtained because the exact location of the ' spuddings is not known, and the area of the lake is seldom accurately known.
* 1963 , , page 26 ,
- Of the 21 holes the small consortium drilled, all of them proved to be dry except two promising spuddings in Libya during 1958.
* 1998 , Society of Petroleum Engineers of , Proceedings [of The] Drilling Conference , page 428 ,
- On the first two spuddings a standard rotary bottom hole assembly was used and was unsuccessful because of(sic) top hole deviations between 4 and 6 degrees were measured.
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