OIL WELL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A well that yields or has yielded oil

Synonyms:

oil well; oiler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("oil well" is a kind of...):

well (a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil well"):

gusher (an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary)

spouter (an oil well that is spouting)

stripper; stripper well (an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day)

wildcat; wildcat well (an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field)