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Studding vs Spudding - What's the difference?

studding | spudding |

As verbs the difference between studding and spudding

is that studding is while spudding is .

As nouns the difference between studding and spudding

is that studding is the timber framework for a lath and plaster wall while spudding is (drilling) the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.

studding

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The timber framework for a lath and plaster wall
  • A batten of wood for this framework
  • Anything with which a surface is studded

    • See also

    * studding sail

    spudding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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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