whipstock

• “After missing on the first three attempts over 11 days, the drilling team determined they were less than a half meter from their target when a "whipstock," a wedge intended to divert the drill at a sharp angle, became stuck, forcing them to back up 100 meters to try again, before hitting the well.”

  BusinessWeek.com --

• “The statement said the latest effort to stop the leak had been delayed because "whipstock" equipment, used to direct the drill, had failed.”

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

• “To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.”

  Pericles, Prince of Tyre

• “Flinging out his left hand, Van sent a lash of his own, a lash of lightning from his outstretched finger to the whipstock.”

  Magic's Promise

• “Raising his brass-bound old whipstock he struck at the prisoner's mouth to knock out the shining prize.”

  The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

• “Octavius leaned to the carriage and threw the reins around the whipstock.”

  Flamsted quarries

• “The laniards of the shrouds had been cut away on both sides, and the tall and tapering mast was quivering and bending like a whipstock, from the action of the wind and the waves.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “I guess you have," John said, relinquishing the whipstock.”

  The Wind Before the Dawn

• “She's been awfully cross and cried about everything this week, but she hasn't complained much -- that is, of anything but a little backache," John replied, fingering the whipstock of the doctor's buggy and not able to connect the present serious illness with any real reason.”

  The Wind Before the Dawn

• “He was holding the whipstock in his right hand, and that favored the Texan.”

  Kid Wolf of Texas

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