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  • verb To drill again or anew.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ drill

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Examples

  • QUESTION: No, a three-foot hole they would redrill.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006 2006

  • Thirty-six months, Sergetov reflected bleakly, if we can divert the drill rigs and crews to redrill every damned well and at the same time rebuild the EOR systems.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • On the Deepwater Tano Block, the Enyenra-1 well, which was a redrill of the Owo-1 discovery well, was recently completed.

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  • Oh yeah, and I didn't realize that I didn't make the center hole quite big enough until I got them home, so I've got to redrill the center holes a little bigger.

    Lincoln vs Cadillac 98lincmk7lsc 2010

  • Hole CA-2009-05W is a redrill of Hole CA-2009-05 off a wedge at 465 metres, to compensate for a high level of lost core.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • "It will be necessary to redrill every production well and finally reconstruct the pipelines from the fields to the refinery and elsewhere.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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