spud

IPA(Pronunciation)

/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.

Japanese Meaning

スパッドを使って雑草を掘り起こす / 油井の掘削を始める、つまりドリルのビットやシャフトを上下させることで掘削する

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Every Saturday morning she would spud the vegetable patch until it was free of weeds.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

毎週土曜日の朝、彼女は小さな鍬（くわ）を使って菜園の雑草を掘り起こし、畑をきれいにしていた。

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Sense（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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Sense（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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Sense（3）

(roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.

Sense（4）

spuds

（ present singular third-person ）

spudding

（ participle present ）

spudded

（ participle past ）

spudded

（ past ）

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