drilling pipe

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   a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud

   Broaderpipe

Questions about drilling pipe

What does drilling pipe mean?

drilling pipe means "a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud".

Is drilling pipe a common word?

drilling pipe 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.