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  • noun Plural form of drillbit.

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Examples

  • Apparatus in the fields was smashed; derricks were dynamited; wells were plugged with stone, spikes, mud, broken chains, drillbits, and whatever else was handy; pipelines were crippled; and huge oil storage tanks were set ablaze, exploding with great roars.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • May 3, 2008 at 8:43 am oh teh fireminz are cummin wit teh drillbits…………….

    Cat law #13: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Apparatus in the fields was smashed; derricks were dynamited; wells were plugged with stone, spikes, mud, broken chains, drillbits, and whatever else was handy; pipelines were crippled; and huge oil storage tanks were set ablaze, exploding with great roars.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • When you're tilted backwards in a dentist's chair, trying not to move as strange hands shuttle rapidly-rotating drillbits around the insides of your mouth, you become intimately familiar with faces.

    A Secret Post That Everyone Can Read Except For Gini 2004

  • However, horizontal drilling has opened up these areas, sending the drillbits underneath residential areas and airports since it started in 2007.

    The Engineer - News 2010

  • 'It makes a tremendous amount of sense,' Kurt Hallead, RBC Capital's co-head of energy research, said of a Smith deal, as it would let Schlumberger compete in drillbits and give it full ownership of M-I SWACO.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • By duncan, Mon 2nd Jun 2008 @ 8:56 am good luck, i laid cat6 throughout my house when the central heating was upgraded - as the plumber had the floorboards up i thought it wise to lay cables. so i decided to put two cables into every room, from the "data cabinet" - where a hot water tank was in the annex. in the end needed rather a large hole to fit 10 cables through - but luckily my plumber had all the required drillbits to hand.

    Snell-Pym » I’ve finally started cabling my house 2008

  • And once you start, you’ll find you know almost all of the stuff anyway—it is, as I said, mostly a matter of cleaning the rust off the drillbits and sharpening the blade of your saw.

    on writing by stephen king scribner 2000

  • - make them into drillbits as posted on Lifehacker

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • SLB.N) bought Smith for its drillbits, Halliburton bought well intervention expert Boots & Coots, and Baker Hughes Inc BHI.N) took over BJ Services to add capability in the fast-growing U.S. market for pressure pumping.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

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