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churn drill
noun
- a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
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This is a mechanical method and one form of apparatus employed is of the churn-drill type common throughout oil and coal regions.
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