| 单词 | thribble | 
| 释义 | thribblen. regional.   = treble n.   (spec. in oil drilling: see quots. 1932,  1975), treble adj. and adv., treble v. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > 			[noun]		 > drilling equipment > other parts of drilling equipment Samson's post1865 stand1913 thribble1932 kelly1934 1829    J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 90  				Thribble, treble. 1877    Wide Awake IV. 348/2  				O, let the corn swell till it's three times as bulky as it was in the beginning; that's that's [sic] we call ‘thribbling’. 1904    E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet i. 1  				The man at the shop said they were worth thribble the money. 1932    Amer. Speech 7 271  				Thrible.., a stand of three joints of pipe. Thrible-board.., a platform in the derrick at the height of a thrible. 1975    ‘J. Black’ Oil  ii. ii. 158  				Drill pipe came in thirty-foot lengths. These were screwed into sixty- or ninety-foot segments, known to oil field workers as ‘doubles’ or ‘thribbles’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < | 
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