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Definition: WHIPSTOCK |
WHIPSTOCKNoun1. The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened. |
Date "WHIPSTOCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A wedge-shaped tool inserted in a borehole to direct the bit along a prescribed course. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A piece of hard steel that guides the drill until the hole is established in the desired direction. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wedge-shaped device used to deflect and guide a drill bit away from vertical; procedure of deflecting a hole. CF:arc cutterSee also:deflection wedge. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: WHIPSTOCK |
| English words defined with "WHIPSTOCK": Whipstalk, Whipstick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WHIPSTOCK": deflection wedge ♦ whipstock point, wiggle tail. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
whipstock | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WHIPSTOCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | grej til at udfoere afboejede boringer med er foelgende:afboejerskinne grej med knae paa,turbine med forlaenger med knaek paa,turbine med retningsskinne og borekrone med stort sproejtehul/straalehul (and the big eye bit, the knuckle joint, the turbine with bent sub, the turbine with deflecting shoe, the various deflecting(or deflection)tools are the whipstock). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | richtkeg (deflection wedge). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | sifflet déviateur, genouillère, biseau de déflexion. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ablenkkeil (deflecting cone, deflection wedge, deflector cone). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | λαβή μάστιγοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | deviatore a cuneo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipstockwhay las distintas herramientas deflectoras que se utilizan son: el bisel desviador (whipstock), la herramienta articulada, la turbina con empalme acodado, la turbina con zapata desviadora y la broca de boquilla grande (and the "big eye" bit, the knuckle joint, the turbine with bent sub, the turbine with deflecting shoe, the various deflecting(or deflection)tools are the whipstock). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "WHIPSTOCK": whipstocks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-k-o-p-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: photics. | |
-3 letters: hoicks, kitsch, optics, photic, picots, schtik, shtick, switch, thicks, topics. | |
-4 letters: chips, chits, chops, chows, hicks, hocks, hoick, hoist, howks, kiths, kophs, optic, phots, picks, picot, pisco, pitch, piths, pocks, posit, shock, shtik, sicko, spick, stich, stick, stock, stoic, stowp, swith, thick, ticks, tophi, tophs, topic, topis, whips, whipt, whisk, whist. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-k-o-p-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: whipstocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 48 49 50 53 54 4F 43 4B |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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