stripper well

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   an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day

   Synonymsstripper

   Broaderoil well

Questions about stripper well

What does stripper well mean?

stripper well means "an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day".

What is another word for stripper well?

Close synonyms include stripper. 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 stripper well a common word?

stripper well 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.