spud

/spʌd/

verb

To dig up weeds with a spud. / (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.

I need to spud the garden to get rid of the weeds.

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意味（1）

To dig up weeds with a spud.

There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.

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意味（2）

A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)

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