drilling mud

1. 1.

   a mixture of clays and chemicals and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole

   Synonymsdrilling fluid

   Broaderlubricant

Questions about drilling mud

What does drilling mud mean?

drilling mud means "a mixture of clays and chemicals and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole".

What is another word for drilling mud?

Close synonyms include drilling fluid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drilling mud a common word?

drilling mud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.