spudded in

spudded in
A technical term of oil-well drillers. As the phrase is employed and understood among oil operators, it denotes the first abrasion of the soil by the drill, or that of first entrance of the drill into the ground. Scheel v Harr, 27 Cal App 2d 345, 80 P2d 1035.

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