English Dictionary

spud

IPA（発音記号）

/spʌd/

動詞

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.

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

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.

意味（2）

(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.

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.)

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.

spuds （ present singular third-person ）

spudding （ participle present ）

spudded （ participle past ）

spudded （ past ）